Re:Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins
by PeterisP on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @08:40PM
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If this is really is business as usual, then it might be acceptable for a widget selling company but completely unacceptable for financial services. In financial services the same actions that you describe are gross negligence that (depending on jurisdiction) can mean personal liability, possibly including criminal charges, for the relevant CxOs, and a lifetime ban from running any other financial companies in future. You can't entrust consumer's money to companies being run like that, it's pure nonsense.
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Re:Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins
by gaadd33 on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @09:42PM
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You think that Goldman Sachs, for example, had exactly 263,674,000,000.00 of cash and cash equivalents at the end of 2012? You don't think that's likely rounded to at least the million?
In fact it seems that most Fortune 500 companies, regardless of industry round things to the million. It's pretty easy to lose a few hundred thousand if you are doing that.
Re:Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins
by rayiner on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @10:21PM
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Auditing standards at large banks have a materiality threshold. At a Goldman or Morgan Stanley, that threshold approaches half a billion. But that's at the top layer, on top of many other layers of accounting. At the level of individual customer accounts, even small discrepancies would be caught.