[moneydance] Work with Australian institutes?

[Anthony]

I got replies from two of the Australian banks that operate in New  
Zealand.

Westpac say:

> It is not possible to access online banking data directly with a  
> third party program as this is a security risk for your financial  
> data.
>
> The described method of downloading data in a range of formats is  
> the only way to import transaction information into a 3rd party  
> program
>
> Regards
> (Name deleted to preserve dignity)
> Westpac
> E-mail Support
> Phone: 0800 400 600 (+64 9 912 8000)
> e-mail: customer_support at westpac.co.nz
> Have you checked our Common Questions Page?
> http://www.westpac.co.nz/olcontent/olcontent.nsf/Content/Common 
> +questions

National Bank of New Zealand, now sadly owned by ANZ, declined to  
answer the question that was actually asked and instead answered the  
one that they thought I should have asked, the answer to which I  
already knew.

A

On 2006 Jul 15, at 17:45, Penedo wrote:

> On 15/07/06, Anthony <bogor at mac.com> wrote:
>> Best I can see is my westpac page. They offer a choice of downloads
>> (CSV, QIF, MYOB and DeskBank) but I guess you have to download the
>> transactions and then import them.
>
> Thanks. That's what I'm doing right now and was hoping that a direct
> connection might help a bit in keeping things in sync.
>
> BTW - I got the impression that QIF became the de-facto standard but
> is not the optimal open standard format - which format is the best
> quited for such data transfer? OFX?
>
> I'd like to send e-mail to all the institutes I work with to ask them
> to support a better standard.
>
> --P
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