MT940 and MT942

Suzen, Mehmet <msuzen <at> gmail.com> writes:

Hello List,

Are there any R package that can process MT940/942?

Thanks

mem

I find it hard to say because I have no idea what those formats are
(although googling suggests they're banking codes).

  library("sos") and using findFn() on "MT940", "MT942",
and "SWIFT" brings up nothing useful, so it looks like you're
out of look. 
   Check out the task views, especially the finance one; I think
there's also an r-sig-finance mailing list where you might have
better luck.

Suzen, Mehmet <msuzen <at> gmail.com> writes:

Hello List,

Are there any R package that can process MT940/942?

Thanks

mem

 I find it hard to say because I have no idea what those formats are
(although googling suggests they're banking codes).

 library("sos") and using findFn() on "MT940", "MT942",
and "SWIFT" brings up nothing useful, so it looks like you're
out of look. 
  Check out the task views, especially the finance one; I think
there's also an r-sig-finance mailing list where you might have
better luck.

There are various format converters out there, including to OFX format. Also to CSV, which would be immediately readable i R, but maybe (I don't really know anything about this) lose too much meta-information. 

Some of the converters are Open Source, although not in R. And there have been queries on R-sig-finance on how to read OFX, which apparently is basically XML.

So it looks like some assembly is required, but puzzle pieces are available.

Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com

So it looks like some assembly is required, but puzzle pieces are available.

Concerning MT940 spec, I don't know who is regulating this. There is
no RFC or similar.
The closest thing I found was from DB:
https://deutschebank.nl/nl/docs/MT94042_EN.pdf