The financial-services industry has often been quick to adopt new Web technology. But in the case of one new service, called account aggregation, some players are moving ahead before the technology even works.
Account aggregation is the latest rage in online financial services.
At a single Web site, you can view a summary of any online account. I can now access my accounts, but sometimes I get error messages indicating the data supplied is old. Yodlee customer service says it's working to resolve the problem. Yodlee doesn't provide balances of individual holdings in my brokerage account. The mobile-phone version of Yodlee is surprisingly fast.