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Re:A First Look at BankSimple by haberman on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @05:19PM (#3023735)
> Frankly, sorting my past transactions just isn't a problem I desperately need to have solved.

That's also not a problem you need to be a bank to solve. Mint and others are already doing a lot of innovation by pulling existing transaction data and offering powerful tools/visualizations for it.

Banks are never the best place to get powerful analytics, because they are limited to the accounts you have with that bank. No one wants to be limited to one financial institution, or have to change accounting systems just because you switched banks.

Re:A First Look at BankSimple by jrockway on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @06:14PM (#3023910)
Bank of America seems to have some Mint-like thing that integrates your non-Bank accounts in their web interface. Theoretically it's some piece of packaged software that banks buy.
Re:A First Look at BankSimple by jond2062 on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @06:29PM (#3023973)
Re:A First Look at BankSimple by StrawberryFrog on Thursday September 22, 2011 @05:47AM (#3025468)
> That's also not a problem you need to be a bank to solve. Mint and others are already doing a lot of innovation by pulling existing transaction data

Allowing 3rd parties access to your transaction history is a good idea?