On 9/28/10 12:00 PM, Tom Perrine wrote:
> Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
>> On 9/28/10 10:51 AM, Jesse Thompson wrote:
>>> On 09/28/2010 09:42 AM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
>>>> On 9/28/10 9:08 AM, Jesse Thompson wrote:
>>>> Assuming that everyone has to use the same client comes a bit too close
>>>> to the financial web sites that insist you have to be using IE and then
>>>> program stuff directly to IE so that indeed I have to. But I can't.
>>>> Microsoft has not supported IE on Mac for many years and has never
>>>> supported it for Mac OS X. So, I'm stuck using the kiosk at my Bank
>>>> if/when I absolutely have to. But that's not at all what internet
>>>> banking is supposed to be. It sucks.
>>> At least you have the option of installing a Windows VM on your Mac.
>> Bad option. Then I have the added cost of paying $$ to Microsoft for the use
>> of their OS and for
>> future updates when I really don't want anything to do with it. An ordinary
>> mom&pop household would
>> have to pay a consultant to do the install and configuration as well. No
>> point in getting into
>> platform wars here. It is sufficient to say that I do not personally want
>> anything to do with
>> Microsoft. Your choices may vary, and that is alright.
> (threadjack!)
>
> I highly recommend credit unions over the usual commercial banks. In
> addition to their non-profit nature, and lack of
> desire to hose their customers in order to deliver ever-increasing profits,
> they seem to have a few (accidental?)
> advantages in terms of online banking. (And very, very few of them had
> significant exposure to the toxic assets of the
> housing bubble.)
>
> It appears that many (most?) credit unions outsource their online banking to
> one of a few "online banking companies" and
> those companies in general seem to be doing a good job on browser acceptance.
>
> My data points are few: I only have accounts with 3 credit unions, and they
> have all outsourced to two separate backend
> processors. I consistently use Firefox with all of them, and tested Safari
> with them a year or so ago. I had this
> discussion with the online manager at one of these CUs last year and he
> mentioned the prevalent CU online banking
> outsourcing strategy.
Thanks for the data points.
Happens my example is from a credit union and is, as you say, outsourced. Their
primary services and
online banking are better than excellent. Their outsourced Visa Card services
require IE and do not
work without it. And I did talk to the manager at the credit union about it. He
said he would take
it under advisement. But I'm sure they have lots of other issues to be
concerned with in choosing an
outsource and making changes.
I have many online banks and services that handle bill paying and financial
management over the
internet. Most of them work with Firefox, though I may have to adjust the
settings in noScript. ;-)
Others, I have to use Safari, because I haven't been able to get Firefox to
work even with turning
off noScript. One, I cannot get to work from home, because it is doing some
sort of web callback and
my Macs at home are on private IP's behind a firewall. So, I use Timbuktu over
ssh to get to my work
Mac and connect with Safari from my work Mac. Finally, there is the one that I
simply cannot get to
work, because I can't run IE and whatever IE specific or windows specific
scripting it is that they
are using.
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