Citi (C.N) said on Wednesday that its trading operations functioned appropriately in a thin and illiquid Market during October’s “flash crash” in sterling, responding to a Financial Times report that a trader at the U.S. bank exacerbated the pound’s fall.

The FT cited unnamed bankers and officials as saying that Citi’s traders were not believed to have started the slide in the currency but that its Tokyo desk played a key role in sending the pound to its lowest levels in 31 years.

“Sterling fell sharply following a news event just after midnight UK time, when the GBP spot foreign exchange market was extremely illiquid,” Citi, the biggest player in the $5 trillion a day global currency market, said.

Reuters

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