The equity floor was a financial juggernaut and the derivative desk was at the center of it all.

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Naturally, Goldman is in the process of trying to centralize all equity orders from every part of the firm, including its block trading desk and the division that services high net wealth clients, to increase its market share of all equities traded.

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Mr Oudea rejects the idea of a systemic failure, arguing that the loss was a product of a particular time and place: a period of rapid growth in equity derivatives, which overstretched the bank's capacity to monitor itself, and a peripheral trading desk where people were less jumpy about the risk of fraud.

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