[GNC] OFX connections

[John Ralls]

I'm pretty sure David was being facetious. There's approximately zero chance that any bank is going to undertake developing a new transfer protocol. The trend is that Quicken's propietary Web Connect authentication is what's supported. We've kept USAA going only because USAA decided to stick with DirectConnect and Quicken made it easy to reverse-engineer the new authentication arrangement.

Now if somebody can reverse engineer Web Connect I'm sure Martin would be willing to implement it if it's feasible. He has the advantage of being largely beyond the reach of the DMCA.

Ideally Congress would mandate something like Germany's FinTS for the US. That campaign would need some very wealthy donors to bankroll it, the lobbying against such a mandate from the banking industry and from Intuit will be intense and they have a lot of money and lobbyists.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Feb 18, 2021, at 3:09 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Richard <rhman44 at startmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 3:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [GNC] OFX connections
> To: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> How do I go about that?
> 
> I use several banks for credit cards, etc.
> 
> I am not afraid to ask them.
> On 2/18/2021 4:03 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> 
> Maybe your bank would sponsor you to develop one.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 2:54 PM Richard via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
>> I saw a long list of banks that do not support OFX connections.
>> 
>> That being said, is there a newer bank access protocol under development
>> for gnucash.
>> 
>> Richard
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