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I dont know if anyone is interested, but someone once asked me to look into the SWIFT messaging system, i'd never done anything with banking before. I made a little once page app as i learned it which breaks it down to what everything does.

It doesnt do anything except send to a validation API, which currently is down cuz i've not touched it in months, but i figured some people might find this interesting.

http://labs.tamdenholm.com/swift/




Cool - the notes are very educational. I love this kind of thing: "This must NOT be more than 12 characters long and character 9 cannot be X"


I am interested. After looking up SWIFT I can't really get a grasp on what kind of things you can do with it if you're not a financial institution. Do you have any examples?


I'm afraid i didnt get that far, to my knowledge theres no use for it outside the banking system. The example above is of an MT999 which is to send generic messages to and from systems, other codes do other things, have a google, theres a bunch of info on it.




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