I have a Traditional and Roth IRAs money market accounts with Ally Bank. I 'm in the process of trying to transfer those funds between XXXX other FDIC insured banks so that all of my IRA money will be Federally insured. I signed, dated, and mailed the " IRA Transfer Requests '' applications from these XXXX banks to them. XXXX of the banks in turn submitted this signed request form to Ally Bank to start the process of transferring the money into the new Tranditional and Roth IRA money market account. However, a representative from Ally Bank called to inform me that the requests to transfer the money had been denied. When I asked Ally Bank why the transfer was denied, they informed me that my signature was not notarized by a notary public with a notary stamp. She said anyone could signed a transfer document. I told her that I had signed it and that I was giving her verbal authorization to make the transfer. I told her that she had asked me at least XXXX security questions to verify that I was the owner of the account in questions before we began the discussion of my IRA. There is no logic why after successfully answering the security questions that Ally Bank refused to accept my verbal acknowledgement that I ( the owner of the IRA accounts ) legitimently requested the transfer. The Ally Bank representative agreed with me but said the notary public notarization was their procedure. So I reprinted and filled out the Transfer Requests for a second time and had them notarized and signed by a notary public. I called Ally Bank bank to let them know that I uploaded a copy of the new " Transfer Request '' forms to my new bank and that they would send them the new transfer request. It was from this XXXX discussion that I was told that these requests would also be denied because they were uploaded copies and not the original forms. These kind of onerous rules have no place for an online bank who touts the ease of their software to fill an individuals banking needs. At the very least when I was initially informed that my transfer request was denied, I should have been emailed the precise requirements that needed to be performed to submitt successful transfer form. Instead I accidentally stumbled across the requirement that the transfer request forms had to be the original ones. At the most, when I call Ally Bank and successfully answer all the security questions but then still can not direct how my accounts are to be handled goes counter to having an online bank account. This is wrong and in my opinion over kill when the owner of an account can not call Ally directly to direct how their account is to be handled. 
