# Monzo full banking licence

**URL:** <https://community.monzo.com/t/monzo-full-banking-licence/8146>\
**Category:** Monzo Chat\
**Created:** [7 April 2017 09:13 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/monzo-full-banking-licence/8146 "2017-04-07T09:13:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon5011736](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@anon5011736](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon5011736)\
**Post date:** [7 April 2017 09:13 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/monzo-full-banking-licence/8146/1 "2017-04-07T09:13:59Z")

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Hi I am seeing press reports that Monzo has received its full banking licence… If that is true congratulations. Any updates on what that means for us? When do you think we will be able to open debit cards etc.

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**Author:** ![alexs](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/alexs/32/2443_2.png) [@alexs](https://community.monzo.com/u/alexs)\
**Post date:** [7 April 2017 09:16 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/monzo-full-banking-licence/8146/2 "2017-04-07T09:16:09Z")

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Monzo has received the full license 🎉

You can read more about that here -

> **[Welcome to Monzo Bank!](https://monzo.com/blog/2017/04/05/banking-licence/)**
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> Today, we're incredibly happy to announce that our banking licence restrictions have been lifted.

& here’s everything we know about Monzo’s plans for the current accounts & debit cards so far -

> [@What We Know About the Current Accounts & Debit Cards / FAQ bank credit\_card (open Wiki)](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-we-know-about-the-current-accounts-debit-cards-bank-credit-card-open-wiki/8012):
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> As the launch of Monzo’s current accounts & debit cards gets closer, I expect there will be more & more posts asking about features & updates so I thought I’d create this Wiki to pull together all of the details that Monzo’s confirmed so far. This Wiki is only intended to cover features that are part of the current accounts & debit cards or features which can only be built once they launch. To see what’s changed after an update to this post (when it’ll appear at the top of the new / updated t…

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/original/3X/a/e/aedf2f7852aef6ffcd99f29eac49128cfbd2ecc3.svg) [@system](https://community.monzo.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [4 October 2017 09:31 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/monzo-full-banking-licence/8146/3 "2017-10-04T09:31:07Z")

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