TD Bank customers who use TD Access: PC will soon find it easier to manage their finances. TD Bank has announced plans with Microsoft Canada and Intuit Canada to offer customers a link from TD Access:PC to Microsoft(R) Money 97 or Quicken(TM) for Windows. Available later this year, the new service will allow customers to transfer transaction information from their accounts directly into Quicken or Microsoft Money. TD Access: PC is TD Bank's innovative, fully-integrated, on-line banking and brokerage product. "This is great news for TD Access: PC customers who want to get the most from their personal financial money management software," says Ron Hodges, Vice President, Direct Services. "We are always looking for ways to help make our customers' financial lives easier, and this will be an invaluable featurethat will save them even more time."
"We're delighted to be working with TD Bank to provide our customers with better integration and control of their financial lives," says Justin Bonar, Business Development Manager for Intuit Canada. "Users of Quicken will now benefit from advanced reconciliation and other smart features pre-wired in Quicken." "Microsoft Canada is committed to providing the best in software to ensure convenience for the growing number of customers who do their banking online," says Bertrand Labelle, Manager of Electronic Commerce at Microsoft Canada. "We are excited to provide TD Access: PC customers with connectivity to Microsoft Money 97 through our Active Statement technology."
Connectivity to TD Bank's online banking service will be enabled using Active Statement Technology and Open Financial Exchange. Open Financial Exchange, announced in January by Intuit Canada and Microsoft Canada, is the unified technical specification for a secure exchange of financial data.
TD Access: PC is the first computer banking service in North America to offer Canadians comprehensive, any time access to their personal and business banking accounts and brokerage accounts, all in one secure, easy-to-use, windows-based package. Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers. The Company offers a wide range of products and services for business and personal use, each designed with the mission of making it easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of personal computing every day. Microsoft Money 97 is a task-based personal finance program designed for people who want an easier, more effective way to manage all their financial tasks. Microsoft's Internet address is www.microsoft.com/products.
Intuit Canada Limited (www.intuit.com/canada/), based in Toronto, is the leading developer of personal finance, small business accounting and tax preparation software. The Company develops and markets software products that enable individuals and small businesses to automate commonly performed financial tasks. Intuit's Quicken, QuickBooks and QuickBooks Pro products allow users to manage their personal and small business finances. The Company's popular QuickTax and ImptôRapide software enable consumers to prepare their own tax returns. QuickTax ProSeries is the Professional T1 Tax software. Intuit trades on NASDAQ under the symbol INTU.
TD Bank is at the forefront of customer convenience offering innovative technology-based banking services in order to help make banking easier. Under the TD Access umbrella, TD offers convenient alternatives such as telephone and PC banking and Green Machines. These services provide customers with anytime access to their accounts from anywhere.
