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A `Short text` field formatted as a bank account now checks the number against your organisation's
currency.

## What's new

- **New Zealand bank account numbers.** When your organisation's currency is NZD, a bank account
  answer must be a New Zealand number: bank, branch, account and suffix, such as
  `01-0123-0123456-00`, with or without the hyphens. A number in the wrong shape is flagged when the
  applicant leaves the box and refused on submit, and the hint under the box shows a New Zealand
  example. See [Form builder](/administrator/applications/form-builder).
- **Other currencies.** For a currency other than AUD or NZD, a bank account answer may hold digits,
  spaces and hyphens only.
- **Everywhere a bank account is entered.** The same check, and the same hint, applies to the bank
  account an administrator keeps on an applicant's record or on a contract, and a `Change of bank details`
  request approves the number your form accepted.
- **Australian organisations see no change.** With AUD, the answer is still a 6-digit BSB followed by
  a 4 to 10 digit account number.