Online banking and bill payment is especially convenient for NBD customers who spend part of the year in Florida. They can transfer money between their NBD accounts in Florida and Michigan or Indiana. They even can pay bills from either account. Online instructions and transactions a re sent via modem over privately-leased, dedicated phone lines. The service uses two levels of encryption, and customers choose a personal identification number, which is required to authenticate each banking session.
Customers receive their first two months of online banking and bill payment for free.
BankNow can be downloaded free from America Online. New users receive a trial version of QuickBooks that is good for 25 uses. NBD Bank is a subsidiary of First Chicago NBD Corporation, the nation's 8th largest bank holding company and the Midwest's number one provider of financial products and services to consumers, middle market companies and large corporations. America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Va., is the largest consumer online service in the world, with 6.2 million members worldwide. Intuit Inc., based in Mountain View, Calif., develops and markets the Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax families of PC-based financial solutions.