diff --git a/lib/OfxParser/Parser.php b/lib/OfxParser/Parser.php
index 5a5f6df..0bd22a4 100644
--- a/lib/OfxParser/Parser.php
+++ b/lib/OfxParser/Parser.php
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ public function loadFromFile($ofxFile)
 	public function loadFromString($ofxContent)
 	{
 		$ofxContent = utf8_encode($ofxContent);
-
+		$ofxContent = str_replace("<", "\n<", $ofxContent); //add linebreaks to allow XML to parse
+		
 		$sgmlStart = stripos($ofxContent, '<OFX>');
 		$ofxHeader = trim(substr($ofxContent, 0, $sgmlStart));
 		$ofxSgml = trim(substr($ofxContent, $sgmlStart));
@@ -115,4 +116,4 @@ private function convertSgmlToXml($sgml)
 
 		return trim($xml);
 	}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}