Hi,
I download a bank statement in SWIFT which gives me a "bank.mt940" file.
How can I open this file on Mac Catalina ?
Thank you.
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15
47ba wrote:
It's a bank statement downloaded from my Home Banking.
FWIW, Manager is supposed to open .mt940 files. Whether it works or not I can't say. There is a Mac version.
See this page: https://www.manager.io/download/
Have you tried Control-clicking on it and seeing which apps your mac is offering
to open it with.
Will it open with Text Edit, do you have Numbers installed.
I think I found what «SWIFT» you are referring to, 47ba: Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).
Is that correct?
Likewise, I found information on the file format of the given file extension (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MT940):
'MT940' (MT = Message Type) is the SWIFT standard (Banking Communication Standard) for the electronic transmission of account statement data. In various Online Banking programs, MT940 is used as an interface[disambiguation needed] to other programs (e.g. for accounting), with which the account statement data are processed further. The MT formats (Message Types, MT) currently used in the SWIFT community, which also include MT940, are to be replaced in the long term by the XML formats described in the ISO 20022 standard to achieve global unification (see also Camt format).
The Wikipedia article includes a link to a PDF on the format.
It appears to be a binary format.
The only Viewer program I see is only for Windows.
Windows only ? Strange because I read " A SWIFT file is a source code file written in Swift, a programming language introduced by Apple with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. It is designed for writing and compiling apps and can be used with Xcode beginning with Xcode 6. "
As with so many technical things, 47ba, words/terms/acronyms can mean so many widely different things!
That’s why I asked you, in the beginning, «What is «SWIFT», in your case, 47ba?»
I’m quite familiar with the Swift programming language. Such files are simply text files, and can be edited on any text editor. (Such may have the file extension .swift.)
Obviously, that’s not what you are dealing with.
Have you noticed that dialabrain appears to have found a version of a «.mt940» file reader program? (Actually, it looks like it does more than just read/view those files.)
Yes I have, it gives no app. If I choose App Store , it says there's no app available to open this file.
What is «SWIFT», in your case, 47ba?
A banking program? Accounting? Personal finance?
Numbers won't open it - > " Numbers is unable to open this file ".
Text Edit opens gibberish unusable .
Thanks.
It's a bank statement downloaded from my Home Banking.
Is «SWIFT» your «Home Banking» App, 47ba?
Surely it is not the “name” of that «.mt940» file type.
Was that «.mt940» file supposed to be your downloaded «bank statement»?
That refers to the SWIFT programming language. Nothing to do with .mt940 files. Did you try the app I linked?
How To Open a SWIFT File
