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A lot of banks still run mainly on FORTRAN or COBOL. I guess it's "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" attitude.

I've worked at a financial place that ran COBOL for back-end services. Worked great. Maintenance sucked. But it was pretty impressive.

Financial institutions also advertise job openings for "senior COBOL developers". They don't bother to look for "junior" ones.