Making it clear when we're on a call with you to protect you from fraud
If someone calls you claiming to be from Monzo, you can now check to see if they’re telling the truth or not in the Monzo app.
Your salary sorted into Pots. Your spare change turned into savings. Your money, doing what it should with Monzo.
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If someone calls you claiming to be from Monzo, you can now check to see if they’re telling the truth or not in the Monzo app.
A technical problem at the company we use to connect to Faster Payments caused issues with bank transfers. To fix it, we’re bringing everything in-house instead.
Your salary sorted into Pots. Your spare change turned into savings. Your money, doing what it should with Monzo.
At Monzo, we’re building a banking system from scratch. Our systems must be available 24x7 no matter what happens, scalable to hundreds of millions of customers around the world, and very extensible. This first post in a series about our platform explains how we’re building systems to meet these demands using modern…