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May 19, 2017, 9:50 PM UTC

The Giddy Messages Citi Traders Sent While Lehman Died

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By Tiffany Kary, Bloomberg News

As U.S. officials and bank executives scrambled to save the global financial system after Lehman Brothers’s bankruptcy in the fall of 2008,Citigroup Inc.traders were doing what traders always try to do.

“Ringing the register, homey,” Thomas Giardi, a trader in the bank’s credit derivatives trading unit, said in a chat message at 6:40 a.m. on Sept. 17, two days after Lehman’s bankruptcy. Subject line: “YOU MAKING $$$.”

His gleeful boast -- along with at least a dozen from others -- came as Citigroup’s top traders were furiously trying to deal with thousands of ...

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