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Trust my bank login details to a third party?

The UK has open-banking legislation which allows regulated companies to ask you for authorisation to login to your bank accounts. They can then offer you services like analysing your spending to recommend ways to save money. Note that these sites are regulated but you should not take my word for it. Please get their registration details and input them at the UK FCA site to confirm for yourself they are still currently legal to conduct this type of business in the UK. Snoop You'd think the name would put some people off. Snoop does what it says. Has a look into your every transaction, summarising them by what it knows about the payments and, for example, suggests an energy provider with a better deal. I like the fact that Snoop summarises spending, in away the normal bank statement just does not help with. However Snoop also displays things like how much I spent with a particular ISP since Spring 2019. I'm not sure what the relevance of those multi-year summaries are, except to...