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How To Lose $7.2B With Just a Few Basic Skills

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the l33t-skillz-not-required dept.

Cityslacker recommends a Register piece speculating on how a lowly trader at the French bank SocGen was able to lose billions using only Excel VB. The author freely admits that his story is not based on hard sources, but his experience in the banking industry lends plausibility.

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  1. Re:it must be microsofts fault! by Naughty+Bob · · Score: 0, Troll

    You mean bastard

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    "Be light, stinging, insolent and melancholy"
  2. Re:it must be microsofts fault! by NTesla · · Score: 0, Troll

    hehe, if it were MS, it would say
    Do you really want to throw away $7,200,000,000?