[joseblanco]

I'd say its a hot button topic lately so there maybe an uncoordinated industry wide desire to enhance security to insure image is not tarnished. ED has been planning their upgrades for awhile. ING's is more recent. HSBC also bumped up security a bit. There might be more to it than what is in the public domain, hackers are always challenging security so a good bank should always be seeing improvements in this area to stay one step ahead.