Because in infinite banking sector's wisdom, logging into the website requires a confirmation with the mobile app.

DirkH 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

All banks I know that do this have an alternative 2FA you can use instead tho.

bornfreddy 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm in a similar position and I hate it. They somehow managed to convince themselves that if you issue tokens for 2FA within the mobile app it is still "two" factor authentication. Of course since you already have mobile app now, you can just use it directly (and there is no way to disbale that). So while webapp is 2FA, there is now a mobile app which is not. Good thinking.

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dotancohen 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ask for an alternative authentication mechanism because you "do not own a smartphone".

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ekianjo 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Are there banks without such requirement these days?

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bubblethink 2 days ago | parent [-]

Schwab works with totp as 2fa.

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mixmastamyk a day ago | parent [-]

Last time I looked they required some Symantec BS to intermediate. Has that ended?

	▲	bubblethink a day ago \| parent [-]
		I don't know if it has ended but you could reverse engineer the Symantec BS and convert it to regular totp. You likely need root to extract the internal store from the symantec app.

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exe34 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I've changed banks for less.