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SWIFT and NY Fed are making many $10M+ transactions every hour, maybe every minute. I am sure that the Bangladesh Central Bank could have requested daily or tr
by unabridged 11y ago
SWIFT and NY Fed are making many $10M+ transactions every hour, maybe every minute.
I am sure that the Bangladesh Central Bank could have requested daily or transaction limits for their accounts. But they most likely did not have that in place. Being a government bank they might make $20M transactions on a daily basis. They probably also could have 2-factor authentication, but that won't help you if its an inside job.
The most telling part of the story is that you can transfer $80M into Manila casinos (a city I didn't even know had casinos before today) and get that in chips without any trouble. I can't even imagine the volume of money flowing in Vegas or Macau casinos.
- ikeboy 11y agoStill, their margins on 20M should be high enough to pay someone to manually check every transaction, within the amount of time it takes to become irreversible. Reminds me of http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/20/deutsche-bank-accidentally-transfers-6bn-to-a-single-customer http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/20/deutsche-ban...