late booking

late booking
   fraudulently reserving profitable deals for favoured clients
   A practice of commodity or money dealers who prefer to defer nominating the beneficiaries of their better deals until the end of the day, when they can allot the less successful trades to passive investors:
    Regulators said that Mr Armstrong, who joined Jardine, Fleming in 1982 from Scottish Equitable, was in the practice of executing deals known as 'late booking'. (Daily Telegraph, 30 August 1996 — Armstrong was banned for life by the Hong Kong regulators, his employers were fined £12 million, and over £200,000 was repaid to those who had been cheated)

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