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by clarada 844 days ago
Because with transactions things have to match and sometimes data errors happen.

Take something really simple like a bank cash transfer. Do you really think that no one ever accidentally puts in a typo in an account number or an amount? If that happens then the transaction either fails or doesn't do as desired. Either way someone has to manually resolve it.

Take that and put it on steroids for securities transactions.