But even banks that use it make massive mistakes and break the basic assumptions. Unique ID repeating in the same day for example. Or using the minutes in place of the month...
High-tech internet services
Stock exchanges
Websites with no API
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Telcos
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Banks
Unreachable rock bottom of insanityI can't decide whether the failure to implement iCalendar and OFX standards properly are examples of incompetence or malice, but I suspect the latter with an eye to vendor or bank lock-in.
I don't think things will improve unless we find a way to shame big companies in paying attention and playing nice to each other, like it was done for HTML standards (pre-Google's monopolization).