Citigroup reported the "near miss" to the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, according to the Financial Times.

Citigroup accidentally moved to transfer $81 trillion to a customer. Yes, trillion. A bank employee mistakenly entered the absurdly high figure last year while trying to manually input a transfer to a client’s escrow account,

The bank temporarily credited a customer’s account with trillions of dollars, adding to scrutiny of risk management systems after a series of errors.

Citigroup credited $81 trillion to a customer’s account, instead of just $280, and took hours to reverse the transaction — an embarrassing “near miss” for a bank that has struggled to fix operational issues.

Citigroup Inc. erroneously credited $81 trillion to a customer’s account instead of $280 last April before reversing the transaction hours later, according to the Financial Times. The bank called it a "near miss.

Citigroup erroneously credited $81 trillion, instead of $280, to a customer's account and took hours to reverse the transaction, a "near miss" that shows up the bank's operational issues it has sought to fix,