ofx info for scotiabank in canada?

Matt Price matt.price at utoronto.ca
Thu Mar 12 07:03:46 EDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 22:43 -0400, David Reiser wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Matt Price wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> >
> > anyone out there have the ofx information for scotiabank in canada?
> > can't find it to there on the web.  and i guess maybe it actually
> > doesn't exist...
> >
> > thanks,
> > matt
> >
> 
> 
> It appears the bank regulators have struck.
> http://faq.quickensoftware.ca/detail.php?buid=QK&qbid=QK1054
> Indicates that Online Banking Booster (the Intuit name for  
> DirectConnect in Canada) was discontinued for all Canadian banks at  
> the end of October 2008. The banks have apparently all added  
> additional security questions at login that quicken can't handle, so  
> Intuit just bailed.
> 
> In the US, Intuit has pushed the use of an additional token  
> (CLIENTUID) as suitable for satisfying regulator's insistence on  
> multifactor authentication. It remains to be seen how well that rolls  
> out.
> 
> With the advent of no directconnect, the best you can do is download  
> transactions manually from the bank's web site and then import that  
> OFX/QFX file using File>Import>Import OFX/QFX.
> 

thanks dave.  ah well, not so terrible really.  
really appreciate you pointing me there.

matt

> Dave
> --
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Matt Price
matt.price at utoronto.ca


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