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by marcc 2993 days ago
That’s really a terrible place to put people in. From what this says, the SEC put part of the blame on the employees who lifted the circuit breakers without approval, and also state that employees didn’t know that they needed approval?

Before lifting the circuit breaker blocks, the control personnel did not obtain authorization from the responsible technology employees, as required under written firm policies.

The firm’s policies relating to the manual “lifting” of those circuit breakers were not disseminated...