Reading standard financial forms isn't a solved problem?
Worked on bank to bank middleman software. There is no 'standard' form.
How complicated are those forms? It sounds like GS would pay a lot for a software that converts 95% of the data into excel spreadsheets.
Tell me about it
...guy working on doing just that
And probably the big investment firms want to keep it that way, because they can exploit humans to do this work. While their smaller competition can't.