{"id":726,"date":"2006-10-02T06:52:07","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/c85f69112021b59d45a5392c36b6f1ba"},"modified":"2006-10-02T06:52:07","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T13:52:07","slug":"uk-internet-banking-feels-substandard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"UK Internet banking feels substandard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is some great commentary on the state and problems of Internet  Banking here in the UK: <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Digital-Lifestyles-info\/~3\/8383357\/display_page.asp\">Online Banking  In The UK Leaves Customers Short-Changed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I used to bank with First Direct here in the UK, an arm of the  massive HSBC, and they were one of the first to offer a mainstream  and comprehensive online banking service. I've been using their  online banking service since it was first announced - certainly for  five years or more. There are some things to love about the service -  for example, they have an integrated SMS service that I can control  through my Internet banking interface, so I get a message on my  mobile when the balance is getting low, there's been a big payment or  deposit, and at regular intervals so I can keep an eye on my finances  without having to login. Everything is coded, so it's impossible to  tell, even if a stranger had stole my phone, what account the message  is referring to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=zLM007\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=zLM007\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/31144001\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is some great commentary on the state and problems of Internet  Banking here in the UK: <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Digital-Lifestyles-info\/~3\/8383357\/display_page.asp\">Online Banking  In The UK Leaves Customers Short-Changed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I used to bank with First Direct here in the UK, an arm of the  massive HSBC, and they were one of the first to offer a mainstream  and comprehensive online banking service. I&#8217;ve been using their  online banking service since it was first announced &#8211; certainly for  five years or more. There are some things to love about the service &#8211;  for example, they have an integrated SMS service that I can control  through my Internet banking interface, so I get a message on my  mobile when the balance is getting low, there&#8217;s been a big payment or  deposit, and at regular intervals so I can keep an eye on my finances  without having to login. Everything is coded, so it&#8217;s impossible to  tell, even if a stranger had stole my phone, what account the message  is referring to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=zLM007\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=zLM007\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/31144001\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}