Format
Open Financial Exchange
Summary
- Name
- Open Financial Exchange
- Version
- 1.02
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/x-ofx
- PUID: fmt/309
- Format type
- Text (Mark-up)
- Description
- Open Financial Exchange is a unified specification for the electronic exchange of financial data between financial institutions, businesses and consumers via the Internet. The first verison was released in 1997, and was a result of colloborative work between CheckFree Corp., Intuit Inc., and Microsoft. Version 1.02 is a SGML version of the format.
- Release date
- 30 May 1997
- File extensions
-
ofx,qfx - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- Intuit Inc.
Internal signatures
Open Financial Exchange 1.02
- Description
- The first entry will always be OFXHEADER with a version number. This entry identifies the contents as an Open Financial Exchange file and provides the version number of the Open Financial Exchange headers that follow (not the version number of the contents). For example:OFXHEADER:100. Open Financial Exchange headers can contain the following tags.DATA: VERSION:102 SECURITY: ENCODING: CHARSET: COMPRESSION: OLDFILEUID: NEWFILEUID:
- Provenance
- Ongoing DROID research work
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 1024
- Byte Sequence
4F46584845414445523A313030{0-2}444154413A*56455253494F4E3A313032{0-2}53454355524954593A*454E434F44494E473A*434841525345543A*434F4D5052455353494F4E3A*4F4C4446494C455549443A*4E455746494C455549443A- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V45
- Release date
- 6 December 2010
-
Added format
Open Financial Exchange 1.02: Outline entry added.
-
Added signature
Open Financial Exchange 1.02: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.