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Format

Open Financial Exchange

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Summary

Name
Open Financial Exchange
Version
1.6
Identifiers
  • MIME: application/x-ofx
  • PUID: fmt/311
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 1.6 is a SGML version of the format.
File extensions
ofx, qfx
Source
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Developed by
Intuit Inc.

Internal signatures

Open Financial Exchange 1.6

Note
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 must contain the following tags, seperated by CRLF DATA: VERSION:160 SECURITY: ENCODING: CHARSET: COMPRESSION: OLDFILEUID: NEWFILEUID:

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
1024
Byte Sequence
4F46584845414445523A3130300D0A444154413A*0D0A56455253494F4E3A3136300D0A53454355524954593A*0D0A454E434F44494E473A*0D0A434841525345543A*0D0A434F4D5052455353494F4E3A*0D0A4F4C4446494C455549443A*0D0A4E455746494C455549443A
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V45

    Release date
    6 December 2010

    Open Financial Exchange 1.6: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.

    Open Financial Exchange 1.6: Outline entry added.