MSE News: Online banking has transformed the way people manage money

Ken68

You could be right Callum, hatred shouldn't be the order of the day.
But bringing the country to the edge of collapse, plus Libor plus Forex, something must be seen to be done, if only to sort the bad from the good.

JuicyJesus

Ken68 wrote: »

You could be right Callum, hatred shouldn't be the order of the day.
But bringing the country to the edge of collapse, plus Libor plus Forex, something must be seen to be done, if only to sort the bad from the good.

"Something must be seen to be done" is a pretty p*sspoor reason to jail someone without trial for a crime that doesn't exist, as a lot of people seem to want to.

Ken68

Four banks have just been fined. Rigging the Foreign Exchange Rates was the crime. See who goes to jail.

Butterfly_Brain

callum9999 wrote: »

Though your accusation is completely baseless and no doubt solely influenced by your irrational distrust (hatred?) of those groups, I'd much rather the government made money from selling my information than taking my money!

I take it you are a banker then

agarnett

GingerFurball wrote: »

Being elderly isn't an excuse, I was speaking to someone the other day who's 96 and uses online banking.

That is a totally crass statement which shows that the poster, like the Guest commentator has no idea what they are talking about and cannot grasp the most elementary statistics.

VT82 wrote: »

Of the 36% of readers who found the guest comment to be very tedious, 83% said it was because of the over-use of statistics.

Or rather it was because of the totally ignorant use of numbers masquerading as statistics, when in fact the matched pairs didn't even remotely add up!

And callum9999, you seem not to notice that bankers generally, and other inhabitants of greedy corporates, have been operating totally against the very core of a free democracy for some decades now. They should indeed be punished.

The callous greedy manipulation continues - just plot the gold and silver fix daily alongwith the implicit dollar sterling and euro exchange rates they fix simultaneously and tell me that is a free market if you dare.

stclair

I'm sure if this is just going to far or will this be how we interact with the banks in future;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30260765

Devonian_Rodders

Banks are encouraging us to use Online banking to save the salaries and staffing levels.
In addition they take little responsibility for security issues when using it. They, along with others, go to great lengths to remind us to ensure we read the url before proceeding. Yet a good example is Barclays, where using search engine the url reads www.barclays.co.uk yet when you visit the site it changes to bank barclays.co.uk. with of course https. This does tend to pose the question is the site real ??
Quite possible some may spot an error in the above url, but I am doing it from memory.
Seems the days of visiting a bank and finding a human teller are numbered.

mgdavid

Devonian_Rodders wrote: »

...... the url reads www.barclays.co.uk yet when you visit the site it changes to bank. barclays.co.uk. with of course https. This does tend to pose the question is the site real ??.......

No, but it does highlight your lack of understanding of internet addressing and security. Ten seconds with google helps, try the following:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-tell-if-my-connection-is-secure

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/ott-explains-https-ssl-and-the-green-address-bar/