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by eblackburn 5223 days ago
As a grad I accidently changed hundreds of mortgage expiry dates from UK to US format (rectified immediately). Lesson learnt. Switching Facebook off for 5.5 million people trumps though!
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"Fat Finger" errors are surprisingly common in finance.

(http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/03/16/3207/the-curse-of...)