Web banking

Yes, because this seems to be the first time that a UK bank has reacted so publicly by stopping some types of transactions on a web banking system because of "online criminal activity".

“What we planned to do was the following: There is the website of the tax office, like there is in Britain and everywhere else. Where citizens, taxpayers, going to the website, they use their tax file number and they transfer to web banking, monies from the bank accounts to their tax file number so as to make payments on income tax, on so forth. “We were planning to create, surreptitiously, reserve accounts attached to every tax file number without telling anyone.

“What we planned to do was the following. There is the website of the tax office like there is in Britain and everywhere else, where citizens, taxpayers go into the website they use their tax file number and they transfer through web banking monies from the bank account to their tax file number so as to make payments on VAT, income tax and so on and so forth.”

"For businesses like his, it's extremely difficult to cope unless you've got web banking," she added.

Web banking transactions would be mostly free, allowing Greeks to pay bills online.