Monzo Blog
The latest updates, stories, ideas and guides from the Monzo team.
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New Mondo Update: Updated Design and More
New day, new Mondo update! We’ve just pushed a new update to the iOS app with two big changes and a bunch of bug fixes…
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A Quick Update on the New Name, via Snapchat
It's been a few weeks since we last gave you an update on our name change project...
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New Mondo Update: Touch ID, Profile Editing and More
We’ve been hard at work on a new update to the Mondo iOS app, which we’re releasing to the App Store today as version 1.5.3...
Mondo Version 1.5: Improved Search and New Export Features
We’re very excited to release version 1.5 of the Mondo app on iOS which you can download now in the App Store...
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What Makes A Bank Ethical?
We started Mondo because we believe there should be an alternative to the banking of the past...
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Ask Us Anything - Join the Conversation on Our Forum
Today we’re taking the next step towards opening out our community forum. We’re linking every post ...
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The Next Step
136 days after we launched our Alpha preview, we're excited to announce the...
Meet Jonas Huckestein: Co-founder and CTO
This week in Meet Mondo, I talk to Jonas Huckestein, Mondo's Chief Technology Officer and one of...
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How do bank payments actually work?
After last month’s post on card payments, we thought we’d follow-up with a post on...
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How Does the Wholesale Foreign Exchange Market Work?
In December we gave an overview of how foreign card payments work, and how...
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Why are foreign card payments such a mess?
Making card payments abroad has always been a painful experience. For me, the first...
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3 Second Sandwich
Mondo recently rolled out our Alpha program to 500 lucky testers. If you weren’t...
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Diversity Debt
Leah has been with Mondo since day one and currently runs the prepaid operations...
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We're Ready
We are incredibly excited to announce the start of the Mondo Alpha Preview. We’ll shortly be...
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The First Mondo Hackathon
A few weeks ago we released the Mondo API, allowing people to...