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MSE News: New HSBC app will show ALL your accounts - even if they're with its rivals
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HSBC is launching a new app that can show you your bank accounts, credit cards, mortgages and loans from 21 different banks in one place...
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'New HSBC app will show ALL your accounts - even if they're with its rivals'
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I'm far more interested in ensuring that banks - particularly HSBC - can't get at information from other providers than helping them to data mine across all of my accounts. If for some reason I did have a use for that I'd want fine-grained control down to individual transaction level about which information they could get at.
Worse still would be marketing sites like comparison sites getting at the information.0 -
I'm far more interested in ensuring that banks - particularly HSBC - can't get at information from other providers than helping them to data mine across all of my accounts. If for some reason I did have a use for that I'd want fine-grained control down to individual transaction level about which information they could get at.
Worse still would be marketing sites like comparison sites getting at the information.
I have a HSBC account and others and the HSBC app will be going nowhere near the others.0 -
Daft hare-brained scheme from the Financial Conduct Authority. Something someone there dreamt up as being in the public interest, despite no one really wanting or needing it. And then of course the banks have to chuck millions at making it happen because the FCA says so. But it's OK because of course all banks have an endless supply of capital to splash on vanity projects like this...0
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From what I have read it will be a nuisance as your accounts will only be ''linked'' for a month at a time then you will have to go through it all again.0
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There's no way I'm giving one bank all the details of accounts I hold anywhere else. It's nothing to do with them.
I can also see it being a potential security nightmare if someone finds a flaw in one of the apps.If it sticks, force it.
If it breaks, well it wasn't working right anyway.0 -
What a lovely idea! A bank can not just lose the info on accounts you hold with them but also any accounts you hold with other banks. I'm sure there is no way anything can go wrong with this.
Where do they get these massively stupid ideas from? The how to commit fraud the easy way handbook?0 -
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/jul/22/hsbc-lost-data-fsa-fine
Let's hope they don't post unencrypted CDs around any more.
They probably just lose the odd memory stick now.
https://www.corp-research.org/HSBC
"Lax internal controls" $2 billion in fines.
This app won't be going on my phone. Shocking organisation.0 -
MSE wrote:It's worth noting that until Open Banking comes into effect, some banks including Barclays, Lloyds and Halifax say that you're liable for fraud on your account if you've shared your login details with anybody, including apps - you need to decide whether or not you're happy to take on this risk before you download an app that uses your login details.
Lloyds Terms and Conditions have contained this clause for several years:If you use an aggregation service we do not provide, we will not treat you as breaking your security obligations as long as you do not give your security details to the service provider.
(An aggregation service enables you to view, in one place, information about accounts with different banks.)
The important bit there is "as long as you do not give your security details to the service provider". A proper aggregation service will not give your security details to the provider but keep it instead in an encrypted file on your device. Nobody in their right mind would be using any service that actually passes the security details to the provider.
Personally, I hope I will be able to continue to use ewise as my account aggregator as I don't fancy to have to go through a bank. I also don't want a bank to choose which financial organisations I have accounts with. For instance, I want (and do have) TD Direct and HL, clearly neither a bank nor a BS, on my aggregator.0 -
I gues it’s a matter of personal choice. There will, no doubt, be plenty of younger people who think that this is a great idea, and may even save them five minutes a day. I have three bank accounts, two of them with the same provider (Tesco), and three credit cards. I can check all five accounts within minutes if I feel the need to.
Maybe certain advantages will become apparent once open banking has been up and running for a while but, for now, I’m not playing.I came into this world with nothing and I've got most of it left.0 -
I have 13 current accounts and 8 credit cards and I haven't seen the need to use an "app".
If I do need to access online banking on my phone or tablet, I am perfectly happy using the websites (all browsers set to request desktop versions).0
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