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Industry (HBO): Could a TV Show About Investment Banking Be “One of the Best of the Decade?”

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One of the characters mis-books a currency trade , which results in her desk losing $40K. Mis-booking FX trades is quite common because you can quote each transaction in two ways (ex: USD/GBP or GBP/USD), so this mistake is realistic. Mis-booking a trade is not the issue; lying about it and threatening full-timers is the problem.