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Bank accounts that do not create dependency on smartphones to use the account
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dealyboy said:@subjecttocontract said:I don't have a smartphone. I have accounts with barclays, lloyds, rbs, bank of scotland, hsbc, santander, co-op, tesco, sainsbury, first direct, metro, marcus, tsb and I may have forgotten a few. Some of them provide card readers.
I would have said First Direct needs a smartphone. I have an FD account and need to use the app to generate a key to use when logging in on my laptop. I would like to know an alternative way.Read the thread. FD is the same as HSBC.However, it isn't easier to generate a code with a 'secure key' than with a smartphone.
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dealyboy said:@subjecttocontract said:I don't have a smartphone. I have accounts with barclays, lloyds, rbs, bank of scotland, hsbc, santander, co-op, tesco, sainsbury, first direct, metro, marcus, tsb and I may have forgotten a few. Some of them provide card readers.
I would have said First Direct needs a smartphone. I have an FD account and need to use the app to generate a key to use when logging in on my laptop. I would like to know an alternative way.
As has been said smartphones are a pain ... slow to load, slow to connect, fast to touch a button and take you somewhere else, did I say fast ... very fast to to take you to a different place, rotating the screen, trying to scroll but touching another button, leaving you in a box without a clue. Did I say I hate smartphones too @F37A ?
No FD provide a 'digipass' that provides the log in codes.0 -
F37A said:Hi
I would like to do online banking without the need to have a smartphone to access the account. If l lose my smartphone then i have a problem in that i can't make fast online payments.
also i would like to use the smartphone as little as possible not everytime i make a payment.
Any ideas on which banks do this. I am with HSBC right now. I lost a smartphone and the stress was increased because i could not make any urgent online payments.
If it is the case almost all high street traditional banks, with brick-and-mortar locations offer an online access.
So HSBC, First direct, Halifax, TSB, NatWest, RBS, Metro, Santander, Lloyds, Nationwide BS, a few to name.
You might still need a non smart phone to receive the access code via sms if you want to access it from home. Alternative they might give you secure key for access. You could also visit their Branch.
I personally prefer an online banking rather than mobile banking using apps.
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I have one of those HSBC dongle things to log on to my HSBC account
all you do is press the power on button enter your pin and it generates a logon code for you it is super simple although rather small so if you think it's just too small for your fingers then you can get a larger one0 -
dealyboy said:@subjecttocontract said:I don't have a smartphone. I have accounts with barclays, lloyds, rbs, bank of scotland, hsbc, santander, co-op, tesco, sainsbury, first direct, metro, marcus, tsb and I may have forgotten a few. Some of them provide card readers.
I would have said First Direct needs a smartphone. I have an FD account and need to use the app to generate a key to use when logging in on my laptop. I would like to know an alternative way.Read the thread. FD is the same as HSBC.However, it isn't easier to generate a code with a 'secure key' than with a smartphone.
I've just phoned FD (no info on the website re. using a physical secure key).
Apparently it's one or the other, digital xor physical. Whilst the physical key is being ordered the digital secure key is deactivated so although SOs and DDs etc will still be processed, the customer cannot login to either the app or online banking (although 24hr telephone banking will be available).
When the card arrives the customer needs to activate it via a changed login interface.
I've decided to stick for reasons of flexibility.
I presume it's the same for HSBC.0 -
dealyboy said:dealyboy said:@subjecttocontract said:I don't have a smartphone. I have accounts with barclays, lloyds, rbs, bank of scotland, hsbc, santander, co-op, tesco, sainsbury, first direct, metro, marcus, tsb and I may have forgotten a few. Some of them provide card readers.
I would have said First Direct needs a smartphone. I have an FD account and need to use the app to generate a key to use when logging in on my laptop. I would like to know an alternative way.Read the thread. FD is the same as HSBC.However, it isn't easier to generate a code with a 'secure key' than with a smartphone.
Apparently it's one or the other, digital xor physical. .....
I presume it's the same for HSBC.grumbler said:F37A said:grumbler said:F37A said:Hi
I would like to do online banking without the need to have a smartphone to access the account. If l lose my smartphone then i have a problem in that i can't make fast online payments.dealyboy said:Santander. Online and telephone banking ... been with them for 35 years don't have their app.
also i would like to use the smartphone as little as possible not everytime i make a payment. Any ideas on which banks do this. I am with HSBC right now. I lost a smartphone and the stress was increased because i could not make any urgent online payments.I went to my medical man. ...
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The correct question would be "which banks don't do this". With most you don't need a smartphone, including HSBC where you can use a physical 'secure key' instead of your mobile.
............But it's either 'physical' or 'digital', not both.
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Bear in mind that if you choose the dinky keypad device for HSBC or First Direct to login and subsequently lose it, you are as equally stuffed as losing/breaking your phone, and a replacement will probably take a week or more to arrive in the post.
I'd used Lloyds for many years without the app, and the same online banking platform means Halifax and Bank of Scotland will be just as easy to manage. No devices or card readers needed to login, and you can reset passwords etc via customer service if need be.2 -
I switched a dormant account to HSBC earlier this year and I was able to get a physical key device from my local branch with no fuss at all.
M&S credit cards also require the same type of device.0
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