My current bank isn't super useful with internet banking, and with branches being as rare as hen's teeth, accessing service is too much of a hassle. So thinking to shift. Interested to know what you all think about these banks I'm thinking about shifting to.

  1. Bank Australia

Pro: Love the ethical/environmental stance, like that they trade under their own licence

Con: Not really sure how good their internet banking is.


  1. Ubank

Pro: certainly seems like the best for internet banking

Con: trade under NAB licence (is this really much of a problem though)


  1. Beyond Bank

Pro: only bank run for members, because it's an old credit union, have personal recommendations

Con: Don't know if they have better internet banking than even my current provider.


  1. Mystery Bank suggestions??

Pro: Perfect bank for me!

Con: Don't know about it yet.


Comments, not financial advice ;), are very welcome!

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[–] 3 points 3 hours ago* (1 child)

What services do you want? Transactions? DR card? CR card? Savings? International transactions? FX?

Also, you mentioned opening and closing accounts. How often do you do this? Some banks have a partitioning or savings goals that lets you subdivide accounts.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 hours ago

    Normal use accounts, no credit cards necessary, maybe savings accounts options would be a good idea, I think they would be.

    Yeah it's the Scott Pape partitioning thing ,that's the main thing really. Anything else like what Ubank offers would be interesting bonuses. We don't open and close accounts often, it's just so hard to get hold of the current bank to change anything. We've got to somehow be in the same place, for a phone call during business hours in the week. That's hard to coordinate, or even remember to coordinate for people working and with kids.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    I use Macquarie as my mortgage ended up with them due to beat deal. Pretty happy with their online banking. Their agents have been average.

    Inalsonuse revokut for overseas travel and transactioans. Pretty happy with the privacy features.

    I use common bank as a back up as it allows me to use graphene os without Google service and still make payments with my phone.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    I'm with Bank Australia, their Internet banking is fine, the app is decent. 7.5/10.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    With ING, happily their app works on graphene OS.

    I would drop them as fast as possible if that changes.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 hours ago

    Lol, you and Graphene OS, you've talked about it so much these last few months. Did you switch to it this year? I haven't gone down that road because I didn't want to get a Pixel, looks like those options are expanding though. I looked at Sailfish OS with a Jolla phone, but maybe for the next phone they'll be less rarefied, or I'd go fairphone.


    Hadn't considered ING, are they easy to open and close accounts?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Bank Australia is also a member owned bank formed from a credit union.

    What internet banking features are important to you?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 child)

    Yeah, that member owned part is a serious 'Pro' for me. But I don't know much else about them.


    The key one is being able to open and close accounts far easier.

    With my current one you have to call them, and they're only available to call on the third moon phase, while Saturn's rings are aligned with Pluto. It's ridiculously unavailable.

    Edit: oh wait, I didn't read you're comment correctly. Bank Australia and Beyond Bank are both member owned and formed from credit unions? Interesting!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago

    I use NAB, they're shit. It's 2026 and they've only just started enforcing 2fa on me.

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