Monzo Blog
The latest updates, stories, ideas and guides from the Monzo team.
How we built Year in Monzo: unlocking the data magic ✨
Several months back, we got our heads together and started dreaming up Year in Monzo 2023. Here's the data team's story about how we get to where we are today.
How we wrote 5 million Years in Monzo
Running a campaign at this scale is a group effort. The words are especially important because there’s lots of them, and each one counts towards building a delightful experience. Here's the BTS story of how we wrote Year in Monzo this time around.
Securing admin access to Monzo’s platform
Monzo runs on a shared platform of infrastructure that hosts our microservices. In this post, we’ll discuss how we broker access to our infrastructure credentials with a system that is resistant to attacks even from the team that maintains it.
Thank you, from our co-founder Jonas
After nine years, our co-founder Jonas is leaving Monzo ❤️
A Day in the Life of a Technical Programme Manager at Monzo
The Technical Programme Manager (TPM for short) role is hugely varied. I want to take you on a journey through a typical day in my life as a Technical Programme Manager here at Monzo.
How we built the new Home screen, by the people who got us here
We've had a makeover, redesigning your Home screen to keep track of all the things you have going on in Monzo today and to make space for the future.
Your fund and ETFs
From the moment you open your Investment Pot and start investing, it’s over to the fund manager to look after the fund you’ve chosen.
The new and improved Home screen
We've had a makeover, redesigning your Home screen to keep track of all the things you have going on in Monzo today and to make space for the future.
Monzo Investments is here – leave the hard work to us
Become an investor and start building for the future, without having to do the hard work.
6 do’s and don’ts of protecting your money boundaries while still enjoying your social life
Here's how to reach your money goals while maintaining a buzzing social life.
“I spend thousands celebrating my coupled-up friends, why don’t they reciprocate?”
Stefanie, 29, is constantly spending money to celebrate her predominantly coupled-up friends.
Protecting our platform from spikes in usage by reducing load from the Monzo app
This blog explores how we’ve made our platform more resilient to spikes in app opens. We can now reduce load on our platform before we get overwhelmed so you can still access and use critical parts of the app, and your card continues to work.
We've improved our gambling block
We’ve been working closely with gambling charity GamCare, our customers, industry experts and people with first hand experience to improve our gambling block.
The SKAdNetwork Puzzle: Using Data to Solve for Effective Performance Marketing
This blog talks through how Monzo uses Data Science and Analytics Engineering to measure the value of paid marketing as Apple’s SKAdNetwork changes the mobile advertising landscape, which helps to inform our wider strategies of sustainable growth
4 things to know when investing
There’s quite a bit to think about when you get started. So we’ve rounded up 4 things we think are must-knows to get you investment-ready.
