I recently ran into the ISO 200022 format and it sounds like something Skrooge would benefit from supporting (at least) as import.

As its name – Universal financial industry message scheme – implies it’s a global standard format for financial transaction between banks. More and more banks offer direct export of transaction data in this format now to their clients.

From a technical PoV, it’s an XML format that is very well publicly documented and should be fairly easy to parse.

More info:

• ISO 20022 official website – of specific interest probably ISO 20022 Message Definitions
• SWIFT page on ISO 20022
• there is also a 60+ page ISO 20022 For Dummies book that has a freely available PDF from the above two websites
• ISO 20022 WikiPedia article
• Eight things you need to know about ISO 20022 XML Messages – a blog post by Sonra about how to understand ISO 20022 XML and convert it to a data base
• a FOSS script in Clojure to translate ISO 20022 to CSV or Ledger-CLI format – the script to translate ISO 20022 to CSV only has 36 lines
• A(n abandoned) FOSS project to build and process ISO 20022 XML messages on Windows

My (new) bank offers ISO 20022 XML exports, so I’m happy to help with data and testing, if anyone is willing to write an importer.

The new import of ISO 20022 is available in git of Skrooge.
You can test it.

Perfect, thank you

Looking forward to 2.29 finally being packaged for my distro, since that’s the first release that supports ISO 20022.

https://skrooge.org/news/2023-02-12-skr ... _released/