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Fat-finger errors are a regular occurrence in the financial markets: In 2001, UBS sold 610,000 Dentsu-shares at ¥6, instead of 6 Dentsu-shares at ¥610,000.
"Fat finger" typing (especially in the financial sector) is a slang term referring to an unwanted secondary action when typing. When a finger is bigger than the touch zone, with touchscreens or keyboards, there can be inaccuracy and one may hit two keys in a single keystroke.
Competitive typist Albert Tangora demonstrating his typing in 1938. Touch typing (also called blind typing, or touch keyboarding) is a style of typing.Although the phrase refers to typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys—specifically, a touch typist will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory—the term is often used to refer to a specific form of touch ...
Trader’s ‘fat finger’ costs Citi $79 million after U.K. fines bank over mistake that triggered 2022 market spasm. Dylan Sloan. May 22, 2024 at 10:52 AM. Mike Kemp—In Pictures/Getty Images.
Google shares melted down the other day after the company's filing agent, R.R. Donnelley, prematurely filed Google's unusually weak earnings a little earlier than anticipated. However, the market ...
By May 7, 2018, Samsung Securities stated that it would file criminal lawsuits against employees who sold their shares during the fat finger incident. [3] On May 28, 2018, government prosecutors raided the Samsung offices. [10] [needs update]
Some use their fingers very consistently, with the same finger being used to type the same character every time, while others vary the way they use their fingers. One study examining 30 subjects, of varying different styles and expertise, has found minimal difference in typing speed between touch typists and self-taught hybrid typists. [3]
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