[moneydance] Potential solutions for UK bank access

[Graham Borland]

Moneydance is currently unable to connect to any UK banks, since they 
tend not to support the OFX protocol. This is a crap situation.

Until UK banks have a change of heart en masse, and pigs start flying, 
the only way to get transaction info from UK banks is screen-scraping.

I've signed up to Yodlee's personal finance site 
<http://www.yodlee.com/> and I'm delighted to report that it flawlessly 
adds accounts and downloads transactions from every UK institution I've 
tried it with so far. (You have to give Yodlee your login details for 
each bank's web site, but their security seems quite robust.)

Using Yodlee as an intermediary between UK banks and third-party 
software products like Moneydance should be possible, since they provide 
a developer SDK. Several finance solutions, like Mint and MSN Money, 
already use Yodlee's backend in their online service, from what I can 
gather.

Could Moneydance please be made to use this, or some similar service, as 
an alternative to OFX for those of us (many!) whose banks don't support it?

Graham