[GNC] NEW USER: SETTING UP GNUCASH TO WORK WITH MY BANK UNDER THE UK OPEN BANKING INITIATIVE

[Martin Parker]

Hi Christopher,

Shame! Many thanks for your assistance.

Regards,

Martin

On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 07:11, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not currently possible I'm afraid.
>
> The open banking initiative has strict requirements upon the data
> controller (ie FinTech apps) to have safeguards, and gnucash being open
> source will never be able to satisfy the encryption and authentication
> requirements to receive a licence to access the data.
>
> C
>
> On Sun, 1 Mar 2020, 5:07 am Martin Parker, <martinjay.calmail at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> Recently retired, I live in the UK and would like to use GNUCash to help
>> with income, expenditure and budgeting at a personal level.
>>
>>
>>
>> Before committing to using GnuCash on a regular basis, I would like to
>> know
>> whether it can be used under the UK Open Banking Initiative to link to on
>> a
>> regular and automatic basis (once set up) to download transactions from my
>> current (checking) account and savings account. I bank with The Nationwide
>> Building Society (https://www.nationwide.co.uk/).
>>
>>
>>
>> Can you please advise me whether GnuCash can be used with my bank and also
>> how I can setup an automatic link between GnuCash and Nationwide within
>> the
>> program.
>>
>>
>>
>> Many thanks for any assistance which fellow users can give me.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>>
>>
>> Martin Parker
>> *Martin Parker*
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