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Wow, it's hard to believe they don't support U2F yet. Even smaller providers such as OVH have U2F for a long time.



Yeah, very surprising. Perhaps companies lose the ability to get this stuff done as they grow larger.

An even more shocking example is Transferwise, supposedly a cutting-edge star of the "fintech" scene. They use SMS-based codes, a wildly insecure form of OTP. Over a thousand employees and they cannot even implement some sort of app-based TOTP (such as Google Authenticator) to protect their clients' money.


Transferwise is quite low risk in this regard. They don't have a balance or anything like that, it's only moving money between 2 accounts in a transactional manner.


No, Transferwise provide balances as part of their "Borderless banking" accounts: https://transferwise.com/gb/borderless/




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