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Re:Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines by tzs on Friday April 20, 2018 @06:49PM (#16888944)
> For instance, I should be able to partition my money into several lightweight accounts - one for groceries, one for home expenses, investment, etc - and automatically have fractions of my deposits sent to those accounts so my budgeting and money management are handled without any effort on my part.

This part probably can reasonably be handled with a spreadsheet at home, so if you can't find a bank that supports it you can still get the benefits. Plus, that handles money that is not at your bank, too. For instance, many people prefer to use specialized firms for investments rather than their bank. For example, an index fund from Vanguard probably has lower fees than a fund using the same index from a bank.

> I should have lightweight cards available for each of those accounts with online card management (request/terminate cards, track per-card spending); multiple cards per account so I can give my wife full use of "grocery" card, and alerts/notifications when I am spending too much in an account/not efficiently allocating the full amount/potentially using a card improperly; financial projections; and so on.

I can't think of a good way to handle this at home without bank support, at least automatically. You might be able to do something using prepaid reloadable debit cards. E.g., you give your wife a prepaid reloadable debit card specifically for groceries, and you handle loading it from the grocery virtual account.

Re:Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines by dgzl on Friday April 20, 2018 @07:02PM (#16889012)
I don't agree that managing a spreadsheet to keep track of money folders is reasonable, when we live in the modern day off technology. I too have longed for having custom bank accounts with the strict purpose of keeping certain money separate from other money. My savings account keeps money for several purposes, but anyone looking at it would just see a single sum.