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		theobon on Nov 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Site requests bank logins for online purchases Is that new. When I signed up, admittedly a number of years ago, they just asked me to tell them the amounts of the two test deposits. No login creds provided.

sathackr on Nov 17, 2016 [–]

At first I thought so, as the first time I saw it was a couple of months ago when I added a new account, but then I googled and found [1]

So I guess it's based on your routing number and whether your bank's online system has the proper framework to allow it.

[1] http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2009/2/12...

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