Tagged: Bank of America

Why have my Bank of America accounts stopped updating via legacy direct access?

Posted on by Kristen Barth

Bank of America recently stopped supporting the older legacy direct access connection method and now only supports the open banking method. You must be running version 8.7.5 or later in order to connect via direct access to Bank of America. To fix this in version 8.7.5 or later, you will need to take all Bank of America…

Direct Download OFX no longer supported for Bank of America

Posted on by Kristen Barth

Bank of America has discontinued support for direct download OFX connections in personal financial management programs. In order to connect to Bank of America for automatic transaction downloads, you will need to connect using Yodlee in the current version of Banktivity (version 8). Bank of America is one of the banks that has moved to…

Banks that have moved to Open Banking and why (Is my bank on the list?).

Posted on by Nancy Powers Libby

Open Banking is a standardized way to allow you to share your financial data with third-party apps, like Banktivity and our backend providers, Yodlee and SaltEdge. It works by you granting your bank permission to share your data with Banktivity. It does this without you sharing your credentials and you can revoke access at any…