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I've been consistently disappointed by UK retail/commercial banks' online services. My "business" bank (Cater Allen) provides maximum 13 months electronic hist
by mmahemoff 13y ago
I've been consistently disappointed by UK retail/commercial banks' online services.
My "business" bank (Cater Allen) provides maximum 13 months electronic history. Anything else you have to call and ask nicely to pay £10 for a snail-mail printout.
Fully aware this would be a problem, I tried to do due diligence before signing up and there's nowhere to get a decent comparison, e.g. see feature matrixes and screenshots of the various offerings.
They'll spend millions on football sponsorship and inane TV ads, but none differentiate on the basis of first-class online services a la Simple. Whoever is cloning Simple, please do it fast!
- alexqgb 13y agoExcessive advertising is the best sign that you're going to get shafted in whatever ways they need to shaft you in order to cover the costs of signing up more people to shaft to pay the costs of signing up more people to shaft... You see how this works? Finding a bank that doesn't operate like a ponzi scheme starts with finding one that doesn't advertise heavily.
- IanCal 13y agoWhat I'm really after, which doesn't feel like a hard thing for a large company to add, is a read-only api. Give me an access token and a set of endpoints to get my data out and I'll be a happy bunny, because then I can build my own tools on top. I find it's a shame that they don't really compete on features like this. Most people still go on personal recommendations (/OH GOD AVOID THIS BANK comments from friends). Either that or who will give me a few quid a year?