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"For years, software makers and financial institutions have been rolling out tools designed to make it easier to track your money on your computer (Intuit's Quicken or Microsoft Money) or to access account information online (any number of bank, brokerage and credit-card Web sites). But it has been tougher to find a single site or service that can store a full history of every financial move you have ever made and give you 24/7 access to it from any computer. Next month a company called Yodlee Inc. plans to unveil just such a single, Web-based vault. To get access to it, however, you are going to have to give its Web site all of your usernames and passwords for your various financial accounts so it can retrieve information and consolidate it. It is enough to give a good scare to even the most Web-hardened.
So who or what is Yodlee? You might already use some of its software: It powers parts of Bank of America, Fidelity and others' Web sites. Yodlee also makes its tools available free via the yodlee.com home page; look at the bottom left for the link to "Log in to: Yodlee OnCenter" to sign up."