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Carl Knibbs comments on bank account aggregation in the UK

Carl Knibbs — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:26:20 +0000

Hi Pete,

Thanks for your comment on the blog!

You can of-course also try lovemoney.com/track

Best,

Carl

Pete Horn comments on bank account aggregation in the UK

Pete Horn — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:22:39 +0000

After a day of searching, I've found the answers to my own question, so I hope this will be of help to anyone else who comes across this blog.

Egg Money Manager system was provided by eWise. The same software also powers First Direct's Internet Banking Plus and eWise's own Accountunity.

I've signed up for First Direct's Internet Banking Plus (I didn't need to be a First Direct/HSBC customer) and I'm happy that security wise it works the same as Egg Money Manager (i.e. account details are securely stored on my PC, not their server), but as a bonus far more organisations can be administered such as utility accounts.

Service is free, they must plan to make some money out of advertising (I had to agree to some targeted advertising & other banners to be served up on the pages).

Pete Horn comments on bank account aggregation in the UK

Pete Horn — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:47:08 +0000

I fully agree with Tom but Egg Money Manager is closing in January for all (ex) Egg credit card users (business sold to Barclaycard). I will continue to use it until it is taken away from me. Is there any UK replacement for it?

Carl Knibbs comments on lovemoney.com v2 - a 'new' navigation concept

Carl Knibbs — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:57:43 +0000

Hi Damien,

Thanks for the positive comments. Yes, 'money' is often a taboo subject. Using mosiac allows us to make recommendations for content based on 'anonymous' social relationships. We think this protects users privacy whilst achieving the goal of offering an alternative & socially 'relevant' view on personal finance topics.

Using 'actual' relationships between individuals for navigation on the site is something we have trialled but not necessarily cracked yet. (like many others beofre us :-) )

Glad you are excited about where we can go with it. I am too!

Carl

Damien Anderson comments on lovemoney.com v2 - a 'new' navigation concept

Damien Anderson — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:18:25 +0000

Hi Carl,

Really nice re-design. The consideration of surfacing content via mosaic is quite compelling, it transitions lovemoney.com to take full advantage of the 'social graph'. Looking forward to see how it evolves.

Damien

Carl Knibbs comments on bank account aggregation in the UK

Carl Knibbs — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:20:00 +0000

Thanks for the comment Tom. Yes, I believe Egg Money Manager is a popular service. Best, Carl.

Tom comments on bank account aggregation in the UK

Tom — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:16:34 +0000

I have been using egg money manager for years to aggregate account balances and it's been excellent. It's the only reason I have kept the account open and I can't believe other uk financial institutions don't provide this. It uses accountunity with a local encrypted safe so you never provide your passwords to a third party.

Carl Knibbs comments on 'accidental' product lesson #2 'if it 'aint broke, don't fix it.'

Carl Knibbs — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:41:28 +0000

Cool. I am a very happy owner of a purple one :-) Hope you are well Miss Lindstrom!

Lena comments on 'accidental' product lesson #2 'if it 'aint broke, don't fix it.'

Lena — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:18:25 +0000

Most certainly agree! It's actually really exciting to see that the product really is just the same as in the early 90s :) (Happy owner of a white Swatch watch since last Monday).

Carl Knibbs comments on product launches...keep things simple

Carl Knibbs — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:26:11 +0000

ha ha. 'Tis always so! Carl