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sized investment bank had disclosed a significant accounting error in its quarterly report. Nothing catastrophic—just a misclassification of assets that overstated capital reserves by eight percent.
"That's exactly what we're looking for," Jinji said, leaning forward. "Catching errors before they become systemic problems."
But the correction triggered an automatic review of the bank's other filings. It revealed another discrepancy. Which triggered reviews at their partner institutions. Those revealed more.
The cascade began.
By 10:30, trading in financial sector stocks had slowed noticeably. By 10:45, it had nearly stopped. The algorithms were working exactly as designed—cross-referencing every claim, verifying every number, flagging every inconsistency. The problem was volume. Decades of creative accounting, optimistic projections, and strategic ambiguity were being exposed all at once.
The system couldn't absorb it all at once.
At 10:52 AM, the New York Stock Exchange announced a temporary trading halt in financial sector stocks "pending clarification of disclosure requirements." NASDAQ followed three minutes later. Then the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Then London. Then Tokyo.
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