Tokyo bourse to pay $115m over blunder

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 24 Juli 2013 | 20.48

A JAPANESE appeals court has ordered the Tokyo Stock Exchange to pay $US107 million ($A115.78 million) compensation over its failure to stop a $US400 million trade blunder in 2005, upholding the initial verdict.

The lawsuit against Asia's largest bourse was filed by Mizuho Securities - part of Japanese mega bank, Mizuho Financial Group - which demanded Y41.5 billion ($A450.72 million) in compensation.

The Tokyo District Court ruled that the TSE must pay Y10.7 billion to the securities firm, saying Mizuho must bear part of the responsibility after one of its employees placed an erroneous - and very costly - order.

The trader punched in a sell order for 610,000 shares in a telecom firm at one yen each, instead of one share at Y610,000, briefly causing turmoil on the Tokyo bourse, whose head resigned soon afterwards to take responsibility.

The TSE had admitted that a fault in its system prevented the trader from cancelling his command, leaving his firm saddled with a loss of more than Y40 billion.

Mizuho Securities said its claim against the TSE reflected losses on sales completed after the cancel instruction was made, and argued that the exchange was entirely culpable for the loss.

But the lower court said the trading firm bore some responsibility and the Tokyo High Court on Wednesday upheld that ruling.

Last month, a German court heard how a bank employee had fallen asleep on his keyboard and accidentally transferred 222 million euros ($A318.42 million), instead of the 62.40 euros he had intended.


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