Totally, mine was falling apart so I ordered a new one but at £45 I opted for hot coral. Doesn’t seem reasonable tbh.
Metal card? What happened to it?!
(If you’re comfortable posting photos, please do).
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Good analysis and industry commentary on the current BNPL gold rush
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I barely count as a millennial, and would not claim to be able to talk for a wide grouping, but I am calling Shenanigans on this bit:
We know that millennials … prefer to use buy now, pay later as this can help them quickly improve their credit score.
I am pretty certain that improving their “credit score” comes way below affordability and immediacy for most, which is absolute fine and understandable, as it is my use case too
And who the heck are Payl8r? Pretty bold of a company I have never even heard mentioned before to talk for a generation
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Sorry, briefly a bit off topic
Well I could not resist having a quite look on Google:
That headline certainly piqued my interest. How could I not have heard of a new FinTech unicorn that has been around since 2016??
And then we get to this bit:
To capitalise on the market, Manchester-based Payl8r has secured £40 million from Conister Bank, to become a £1 billion fintech business within five years.
Lolz. I might aim to become a unicorn in five years too
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More Flex commentary:
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Is it paywalled or is that just a really short article? 
Not fully about Monzo, but rather Buy Now Pay Later - https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/billboards-urge-consumers-to-ditch-buy-now-pay-later-products-as-revolut-monzo-and-curve-enter-the-sector-1210264
What’s this?
In the absence of any application by MONZO LTD to change the registered company name, the adjudicator hereby gives notice under sections 73(4) and (5) of the Companies Act 2006 that the company name of MONZO LTD is changed to 12808379 LTD
One thing it’s not is Monzo in the Media.
What it is, though, is that Monzo bank have got a copycat company that has been registered with companies house to have it’s name blanked.
To be clear, the ‘Monzo’ this relates to is NOT the bank.
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Fair point but didn’t know where else to put it 
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Oh I see:
Someone created a business name Monzo Ltd and they’ve resolved it. Fraud intent maybe?
Someone registered a company called Monzo Ltd.
Monzo (the bank) complained and Monzo Ltd were given a deadline to change their name. They didn’t do this so Companies House did it for them and changed it to a bunch of random numbers.
The end. 
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Or is it….
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They’re not random numbers, it’s that company’s registration number, so it’s name and registration number are now the same.
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Consultation launched as part of UK’s central bank digital currency taskforce engagement.
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I have been following their progress on Twitter, but had not seen mention of the VC funding up to now. Well done them
It does have me wondering if they started writing it again from scratch, how much commonality there is with the original Monzo version and whether Monzo will keep on with the internal version. Something to keep a watch out for
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