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Why Is COBOL Still Widely Used in Financial Institutions?

šŸ’” The Answer

  • COBOL systems have been running reliably for decades with minimal downtime.
  • Migrating billions of lines of code is extremely costly and risky.
  • Financial transactions demand precise decimal arithmetic that COBOL handles natively.
  • Mainframe environments offer unmatched security and batch processing capabilities.

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