[zhte415]

There are standard APIs, and in some countries they're coming into law to be offered this year.

Mint itself, like a lot of personal/SME finance apps, started out as a layer on top of Yodlee, or a similar service, at the time providing a technology/data layer for other apps to work with, so it was less giving passwords to apps, but having them pass-through to a heavy lifter. I agree giving passwords away is not wise, however.

I could talk for hours on on changes in APIs happening over the next couple of years here if you fancied. If you'd like to know more, just reply saying so and I can drop you a mail.

[Jtsummers]

I'd actually be curious to know some of this stuff. Email is my handle at gmail.