The industry began moving towards electronic confirmations and data repositories to record trades, and the backlogs started to reduce.
They cooked up phantom trading records, client confirmations and account statements to corroborate the fictitious investment strategy.
Confirmations for Barack Obama's nominees have come more slowly than for any president in modern history.
The backlog in trade confirmations, which spiked alarmingly last summer, has since been cut sharply; roughly half of all deals are now confirmed on the day they are made.
These sources claim that Mr Adoboli took advantage of a loophole in securities law by using exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to book these fake transactions, since ETF rules do not force brokers immediately to produce confirmations of trades.
There was a smattering of figures for weddings, baptisms and confirmations with the disclaimer: "Research is being undertaken to investigate the changing pattern of church attendance". It is up to every organisation to collect and use its statistics in order that it can effectively do its business," said Mr Beaver.
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A rise in late confirmations accompanied the spike in trading last summer, suggesting that the plumbing still lacks scalability (see chart).
In January this year the group added more issues, including abortion, faith-based initiatives and judicial confirmations.
Both pro-life and pro-choice groups raised large sums in what were expected to be protracted and bitter fights over the Senate confirmations of Messrs Roberts and Alito.
In China people do not use cheques but can get text-message confirmations when they have used their credit cards, reducing the risk of fraud.
