[3Pi]

Which bank are you with? Having had accounts with 4 major banks here (Kiwibank, ANZ, Westpac, ASB), I can confirm that you are allowed passwords more than 8 characters. Also, several of them offer a second protection level for logging in.

[lostlogin]

ASB. How did you get a long password? It just deleted the characters at the end when I tried (6 months ago).