From: "Phil Payne" 

> I once spent 6 weeks porting the SWIFT transmission and reception programs
> of a multinational bank from RPG II (System/34) to RPG III (System/38).
They
> weren't big programs, but they were exceedingly badly written. In the
> process I learned more than I really wanted to know about how SWIFT
worked,
> fortunately I have forgotten almost all of it now. I do remember how
> surprised I was to find such huge amounts of money being transferred
around
> the world with no security or checking as to correct reception etc.

It's probably not a trivial job.  Many banks aren't members and do their
international transfers via member banks.  Used to be very common in
Germany - the little "Sparkassen" used to use banks like Dresdner
and Deutsche Bank.  The destination infor is all there, but ISTR some of
the source got lost.

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