Launching The Bank

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

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Moving this conversation here, to make it easier to find & keep everything in one place…

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Competitor update

Hi James, good question. We’ll perhaps publish a blog post setting out timelines in more detail, but the answer is broadly “the first half of 2017”. We’re testing out the very first Monzo bank accounts internally right now; we’ve successfully made live Faster Payments, Bacs Direct Credits and Direct Debits, and foreign transfers, all with Monzo account numbers and sort-code. We’re also working to finalise our full MasterCard implementation. We can’t hold more than £50k of customer deposits un…