[Gllug] Online banking

[Richard Cohen]

[Warning - bank advert follows]

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Simon Stewart wrote:

> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:13:04PM +0100, Richard Cohen wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 May 2002, Simon Stewart wrote:
> >
> > > I'm going to move banks to someone that provides decent support for
> > > alternative OS/browser users (and has some more respect for their
> > > customers) Your suggestions and experiences are being solicited, cos I
> > > guess most of you have tried online banking with your money
> > > storage/overdraft provider using $browser_thats_not_ie
> >
> > I use Lloyds/TSB (GNU/Lloyds/TSB?) - I actually started with TSB, and they
> > got bought out...
> >
> > Their online banking works pretty well in NS4, Mozilla and (last time I
> > tried it) lynx-with-SSL.  The only slightly clever bit is a couple of
> > snippets of Javascript, but it works fine without it.
>
> That's good to hear. There's no real reason why a secure website needs
> to be tied to IE (or Mozilla, for that matter)
>
> What can you do on the site? Standing orders? View your account?
> Transfer cash from one account to another? To a customer of another
> bank?

I can:

List, create, edit and delete standing orders.
View statement (from the date of the last monthly paper statement, I think).
Make payments to well-known destinations (taxes, banks, utilities and so on)
	or to arbitrary UK bank accounts, apparently including other
	accounts of my own, but I've only got one account with them...
List direct Debits with last amount paid.
Apply for (and probably manage - I don't have any of these) an overdraft,
loan, insurance and so on.

They do seem to be actively developing the site - the "transfer money to
arbitrary account" was only added a few weeks ago.

> > > I'll be away until Tuesday, so apologies if I'm not overly active in
> > > this thread for a while ;)
> >
> > That's just not acceptible.  If you can't be bothered to stick around and
> > read replies, what's the point in asking in the first place?
> >
> > :-P
>
> I do my best to promote chaos and confusion. If this thread is left
> untended, it'll disintegrate into one of those interesting flame wars
> *G*

I do hope so :-)

> Cheers,
>
> Simon

Cheers
Richard



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