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The latest updates, stories, ideas and guides from the Monzo team.

Monzo Flex - pay at checkout
Technology
18 November 2022

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!

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Technology
10 November 2022

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.

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Marie, 49, North Wales
Monzo Me
8 November 2022

“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.

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Let's Talk Business
Business Banking
8 November 2022

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.

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How Money Works
8 November 2022

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.

Technology
7 November 2022

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

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Design
4 November 2022

How we design magic moments at Monzo

Vuokko Aro, VP of Design talks about how Monzo designs experiences that are surprisingly magical.

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Diversity and Inclusion
24 October 2022

“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.

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Diversity and Inclusion
24 October 2022

“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.

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Design
17 October 2022

We’ve had a little makeover!

Our visual branding has a fresh new look. It’s more friendly, more human, more Monzo ❤️

Marketing team
13 October 2022

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.

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Product Management
4 October 2022

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!

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Technology
28 September 2022

Migrating our monorepo seamlessly from Dep to Go Modules

Since 2018, we've used Dep to manage our monorepo dependencies, but when it was deprecated switching to Go Modules was a high risk change. This post explains how we reduced that risk by iteratively updating our dependencies for a seamless migration.

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Cost of Living
24 August 2022

Cost of living: how we’re supporting you and your money

The cost of living crisis is affecting all of us in some way. We’ve been speaking to customers about their experiences and worries, and we’ve summarised how we can help as the situation evolves.

Travelling with Monzo
18 August 2022

Great holidays, great spending memories

Post-trip finance admin can be a drag, but Monzo makes it easy to get a clear view on holiday spending, settle up with friends & start saving for your next trip.