First Direct - Internet Banking Plus account aggregation

Doc_N

Regular users of this will know how useful it is - for the uninitiated it allows you to access all your bank accounts from one page (security details are held on your own PC - not elsewhere).

There's one big drawback though - it requires Internet Explorer to work. It will not function with any other browser. And it's becoming increasingly difficult (sometimes impossible, as on my latest Windows 10 PC) to access Internet Explorer.

There's been talk for some time about a replacement from First Direct which won't need Internet Explorer, but so far nothing.

Has anybody managed to find an acceptable (and secure) replacement for Internet Banking Plus which will achieve the same outcome - all the logins safely stored on one page?

Or does anyone have any inside knowledge about the First Direct (or HSBC) replacement?

northwalesd

Doc_N wrote: »

And it's becoming increasingly difficult (sometimes impossible, as on my latest Windows 10 PC) to access Internet Explorer.

Is it? All my Windows 10 installs include IE11.

AirlieBird

Doc_N wrote: »

There's been talk for some time about a replacement from First Direct which won't need Internet Explorer, but so far nothing.

Artha by First Direct is in a 6 months trial that started last month so I wouldn't expect to see it until the end of the year.

Doc_N

northwalesd wrote: »

Is it? All my Windows 10 installs include IE11.

Not all. It’s running (but not very well) on one PC but not at all on the new one. Add to that the fact that it’s a legacy browser not fully supported by Microsoft and hardly the safest browser to be using.

First Direct are well aware of the problems and have been promising a replacement for a long time now but they never move with anything approaching alacrity.

firefox1956

First Direct have become a real pain in the a** lately & this is one of the things.
To say that they were amongst the first to set up internet banking they now seem to be flling way way behind with things like this.