Connected Accounts: what next? (Summer 2021 edition)

It’s a new day, and a new poll just dropped :pray:

Plus: we just enabled a new Connected Accounts provider! And it’s one you’ve all been clamouring for*!

* You may or may not in fact have been clamouring for this

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No, I don’t see Sainsbury’s Bank on the list :wink:

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I was going to say it but held my tongue, glad someone else did! I didn’t think it would be Sainsbury’s but I still went and looked in the hopes that it was. Still can’t work out which provider was added though!?

The answer is trusted, but you should save it in your bank.

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@Peter_G wins again!

As I said before: TSB seem to have a decent market share (although clearly not amongst you lot), and at this point it wasn’t much work to finish up and launch.

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+1 for Freetrade.

And some mortgages too ideally please.

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According to Emma, Freetrade have no public API to allow this.

Chase UK :roll_eyes:

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Didn’t think Open Banking currently had a useable API for mortgages yet, probably needs the industry to get on with tweaking it and then actually using it on their own offerings.

It’s something they keep saying will appear, but I’ve never seen a solid timescale.

Still hoping for Virgin Creditcard… Please please please! <3

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Yes I think these are the two main reasons for the relative popularity of Sainsbury credit card.

A 31 month interest free period is why I originally got the card in early 2018. They then offered me another 18 month interest free when I asked to close the account at the end of that period, so in the end I’ll have had 4 years interest free.

They’ve been making significant improvements to the app over this period. It used to be atrocious - comfortably the worst banking app I had back in 2018. Although it still lacks some things (main being instant notifications and Apple/Google Pay I’d suggest) it generally now compares reasonably well with apps from other traditional providers.

If they add Apple Pay I’d be tempted to keep it as my second credit card (after Amex) once my interest free period ends.

They still do.

There is “old Virgin Money”, which is mainly credit cards and some savings accounts, then “new Virgin Money” which is the CYBG platform and includes current accounts plus most recently-opened other accounts. They intend to eventually integrate the older system with the ex-CYBG platform and apparently it’s better for credit cards - so credit cards will always be based on that system and everything else, going forward, will be on the new ex-CYBG platform.

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Is bill splitting transactions or enrichment in the pipeline soon?

I’m not on Monzo Plus but either of those features will probably tip me over the edge to go for it.

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Might do a feature request/idea post, but thought I’d share here that I’d love other accounts to be hide-able like pots. And whilst I’m here, be re-arrangeable too, even above my joint account which I only use for household bills :slightly_smiling_face:

I have two accounts which I would prefer to keep hidden most of the time.

  1. I have a money transfer card which I will never spend on. I don’t need to see it even close to daily/weekly, but it would be nice to check the balance via monzo every now and then for the full picture of my financial health.

  2. Similarly, I have one regular DD that goes out of my other current account - again, no need for daily viewing, so would be nice to hide/unhide.

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I think you can do most of that now!

Certainly, on Android, you can hide connected accounts. And rearrange them, although you can only move connected accounts between themselves - they can’t be moved between Monzo pots and accounts alas.

Woah! Time to update the parity wiki.

Definitely no hiding for me on iOS. Edit: screenshot pls?

I can rearrange within the connected accounts, and I’m not holding out hope for my request, but as you say that isn’t quite what I want.

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Had to do a double check just to make sure.

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Wow lucky. Thank you!

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When will Virgin Atlantic Creditcard by Clydesdale be manageable by Monzo… :confused:

Me want it now! slams fist

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Just got premium… the only 2 I can’t add is Tesco Credit Card and Virgin Money Credit card!

Any update on these being supported?

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