bounty for online banking idea for GnuCash

[Christian Stimming]

Zitat von "Dave (DavesTechShop.net)" <dave at davestechshop.net>:
> The concept is about aggregating all one's financial data in one place. So
> the tool downloads it from all the various financial institutions one deals
> with and then uploads it to wasabe so the user can see a complete financial
> picture in one place. So, yes, it is about uploading the data to wesabe.com.
> In my version, it would download the data from all the different places and
> then import it into GnuCash (and optionally upload it to wesabe).
>
> Judging by your question, Martin, I assume you have missed all the "front
> page" news in the US about Mint.com, Yodlee.com, Quicken Oniine, Wesabe,
> etc.

Judging by the wording of this remark of you, it didn't occur to you  
that other people on this list (including Martin and incidentally also  
me) don't live in the U.S., which means we're dealing with a  
fundamentally different system of banks and also a fundamentally  
different way of doing financial issues somewhere online.

For example, in Germany, any bank that offers "online banking"  
features will also have to offer the possibility to initiate money  
transfer online. Hence, if I hand over my online banking information  
to any other entity besides my bank, I easily run into the risk that  
this other entity owns the information sufficient to initiate a money  
transfer from my account to somewhere else. Hence, the idea of  
uploading my financial information to some other website doesn't sound  
like a good idea in this country.

I'll comment on your actual feature proposal in a separate message.

Regards,

Christian Stimming

>
> Personally, I'd like to see GnuCash offer the best of what all those new
> online financial services offer on top of the solid foundation that GnuCash
> already is. I think a Firefox add-on like what we're discussing would
> accomplish exactly that.
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Martin Preuss <aquamaniac at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> just a question: Is this wesabe approach really about *uploading* (!)
>> personal
>> financial data to their website?? Who would do something like that??
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Things are only impossible until they're not"
>>
>> Martin Preuss - http://www2.aquamaniac.de/
>> AqBanking - http://www.aqbanking.de/
>> LibChipcard - http://www.libchipcard.de/
>>
>>
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