Why Citi Lost $500M? Bad design, fat fingers or something else?

Lessons in decision-making to counter human frailty.

Sridhar Ramakrishnan
6 min readFeb 7, 2023
(Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash)

By now all of us are probably aware of the Citibank fiasco that caused them to payout approx. $500M to businesses who refused to return the funds sent in error. A judge first ruled against Citi and Citi prevailed on appeal.

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Sridhar Ramakrishnan

I like to think deeply about business, entrepreneurship, success and failure. I am the Founder/CEO of Arnexa (arnexa.com)