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		rgmerk on March 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Friends don't let friends export to CSV The inertia around CSV in the finance industry is incredibly strong, and let’s just say some of the biggest industry players aren’t exactly reknowned for their cutting-edge practices when it comes to data interchange formats.

throwaway2037 on March 26, 2024 [–]

For interchange between banks, XML is also very common, because it is usually accompanied with a schema doc.

rgmerk on March 26, 2024 | [–]

Yes.

There’s certainly XML. There’s also some very strange hand-rolled formats that are a right pain to parse.

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