Monzo Blog
The latest updates, stories, ideas and guides from the Monzo team.
“Budgeting for things that bring me joy helped me pay off debt and start saving”
Cutting back on less important things while still spending on exercise and entertainment helped Joe, 31, develop a lasting savings habit.
Our borrowing principles
As part of our commitment to being a responsible lender, we follow 3 principles. This is our promise to you, and shows what you can expect if you borrow money from Monzo.
Reducing our NAT Gateway cost with private networking between AWS and GCP
Sharing knowledge on how we implementing private networking between AWS and GCP
How insights shaped building a 0-1 product: Monzo Flex
We wanted to share more about why we launched a new 0-1 product to help people pay for purchases later and how a mixed-method research discovery led to the product that over hundreds of thousands of customers use and love today!
Taking a design system approach to research guidelines
If you’re starting out in a new role in research ops, design ops or any other kind of team operations, this blog will take you through the ins and outs of creating a flexible how-to guide database for scale.
“Cash stuffing helped me save £3k in a year”
Old school savings techniques are having a comeback. Marie, 49, saved for her dream kitchen in a year by digitising tried-and-tested money-saving methods.
Cost of living: how we’re supporting you and your business
The cost of living crisis is affecting all of us in some way. We’ve been speaking to business customers about their experiences and worries, and we’ve summarised how we can help as the situation evolves.
Cash stuffing and other "old school" ways to save money, with Monzo
Classic saving methods involving cash are becoming more popular. Here’s how you can do them with Monzo.
Argo Rollouts at scale: Bringing Automated Rollbacks to 2,100+ services at Monzo
We introduced automated rollbacks to our platform using Argo Rollouts and made it the default deployment strategy for all our services. This helps us roll out changes safely and catch a wide class of problems related to deploying new code
How we design magic moments at Monzo
Vuokko Aro, VP of Design talks about how Monzo designs experiences that are surprisingly magical.
“Impulse spending was a way to self-soothe”
With our new research finding ADHD has an outsized impact on how women manage their money, we meet a young woman who’s learning more about living and managing money with ADHD.
“I made managing money 'dopamine friendly' so it works with my ADHD”
With our new research revealing ADHD costs women £200 more than men annually because of its impact on managing money, we meet a young woman who's managing life and finances with ADHD.
We’ve had a little makeover!
Our visual branding has a fresh new look. It’s more friendly, more human, more Monzo ❤️
Becoming a Product Marketing Manager at Monzo
Rore shares what a product marketing manager does do and what a typical day in the life looks like.
Product Management at Monzo: The interview process
In this blog we share details about what our product manager interviewing process looks like behind the scenes!
