Re: It's been way more than a decade...
You've obviously not ever worked in finance industry lately!
There are way too many price vendor agencies that only deal in FTP service to provide, what I will grant is public price info, but it's still quite shocking. I've converted more of our client processes from SFTP to FTP in the last 12 months though, no doubt a consequence of GDPR but it's still pretty bad out there.