Fat finger also refers to mistakes made by erroneous typing of dollar amounts, account numbers or other critical values. See fat finger check. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

Call it the $78 million typo. That is how much Citigroup agreed to pay U.K. regulators for a trader’s fat finger when typing in an order to sell shares, an episode that caused a brief “flash ...

Citigroup mistakenly credited a client with $81 trillion instead of $280 in a “fat finger” error before rectifying it within ...