**Access all online accounts from one log in!!**

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skiddy2k
skiddy2k Posts: 1,627 Forumite
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here is a website from First Direct, a sistering company to HSBC, that enables you to access all of your online accounts, from current, savings, credit card to loans accounts.

once you've registered you have a screen that shows you all of your allowances and total amounts, where its much easier to transfer money to and from your accounts to paying bills without having to remmeber all of your passwords and customer numbers for all of your internet accounts.

check out the site:
http://www.firstdirect.com/

once on the site and registered, you have to click 'internet banking plus' type in one of your chosen passwords and pin numbers, and your information of all online accounts can be viewed once you've linked them to this first direct internet banking plus account.

makes life much easier
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  • realaledrinker
    realaledrinker Posts: 1,661 Forumite
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    Try this one instead - you don't need to have a FD account to use it.



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  • monki_man
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    doesnt egg have something similar on this?
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  • Milarky
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    doesnt egg have something similar on this?

    Egg Money Manager. I think these services are basically cloned fron the same platform and offer access to the same group of available organisations.

    I use EMM just for bank accounts, since it has a 'nice' feature in updating the balances automatically. Unlike credit cards, these are the accounts which need checking daily.

    Unfortunately the more organisations you have the longer all this updating takes. Thus I use the First Direct IB Plus to hold all these accounts but use it much less often than I do EMM
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  • Martinslovechild
    Martinslovechild Posts: 1,560 Forumite
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    I use the account aggregation service (for that's what these are called) at www.moneysupermarket.com as this additionally allows you to view loyalty card balances too (including nectar, air miles, shell pluspoints, qantas frequent flyer etc etc...
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  • jellyfish_2
    jellyfish_2 Posts: 23 Forumite
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    There was an interesting article about these services in yesterday's Times newspaper.

    Note that by using such a service, you may be breaking the T&Cs of financial institutions (e.g. CC companies) which are accessed via the service.  This would include not be refunded if any fraudulent use was made of your accounts.  Beware!
  • MarkyMarkD
    MarkyMarkD Posts: 9,912 Forumite
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    Yes, but the risk of inappropriate use is fairly minimal.

    With Egg (for example) you still have to log onto Egg. And the details for the other accounts are stored on your PC, not on their site. So the only place it can be hacked is from your own PC, and then with your Egg password details.

    Little to zero chance of that happening, isn't there?
  • Altarf
    Altarf Posts: 2,916 Forumite
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    Try this one instead - you don't need to have a FD account to use it.

    You don't need to have a First Direct account to use their service.
  • Martinslovechild
    Martinslovechild Posts: 1,560 Forumite
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    With Egg (for example) you still have to log onto Egg.  And the details for the other accounts are stored on your PC, not on their site.  So the only place it can be hacked is from your own PC, and then with your Egg password details.

    Little to zero chance of that happening, isn't there?
    This is exactly the same as MoneySupermarket.
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  • deemy2004
    deemy2004 Posts: 6,201 Forumite
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    I tried using Egg MM

    But the time to see the account details was way too slow, and even then not all accounts would always be shown, so I abandoned it and went by to normal one by one log ons.
  • MattLG
    MattLG Posts: 120 Forumite
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    I've tried using Egg MM but you have to use internet explorer because it uses ActiveX controls. Do any of the others allow you to use any browser?

    Sorry, but there's just too many security holes in Internet Explorer for me to trust my bank details to it.

    MattLG
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