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by packet_nerd 2893 days ago
I needed a new bank and thought surely there will be one that offers U2F.. days of searching later, and I still have yet to find one that does. It seems like the vast majority of online banks don't even support any kind of 2FA except email/text. Really really sad.

For regular guys like me, I can't think of any online service more important to protect than my bank account.

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From https://twofactorauth.org/#banking, the only American or Canadian bank that supports a Hardware Token is Wells Fargo - which only seems to support RSA SecurID: https://www.wellsfargo.com/privacy-security/advanced-access
Banks seem very slow to adapt to technology. My credit union for years after the release of the first iPhone still used a Flash login, although they did have a mobile login link you could get from them by asking.
FWIW, in Poland some banks started using 2FA (many different types) several years before Google or any other site I know of.
Yet only Chrome is supported -- and this does not include chromium-browser on Linux.
It sounds like they force you to use a phone/email code when you log in from a new device? Or am I reading that wrong.