It’s very likely the most popular credit card among Monzo customers so almost certainly being worked on. Here’s a good explanation of why it’s more problematic than other connections
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Not for new customers but I believe they still have existing customers with current accounts (they stopped offering to new customers a few years ago)
It went through the app for me. Really quick, and seamless.
The flow for me was also via the Nationwide app
For share dealing, Lloyds Online Direct Investments
Cumberland Building Society has open banking, and Triodos would be a nice addition to that ecosystem. Both ethical providers, too.
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Yes, Cumberland has payment accounts so it has to support open banking. But according to its website it’s not yet live, but coming later this year.
Might be interesting to create a list of the building societies that support third party access via open banking.
This post is a wiki so anyone can edit it.
Nationwide Building Society (already supported in Monzo)
Cumberland Building Society (later this year)
National Savings & Investments (NS&I) NS&I are working on it apparently
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Are there plans to include External Account transactions in the Spending Summary?
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Metro Bank please!
Metro might prove problematic because they don’t support Open Banking via APIs. They provide access via a method called Modified Customer Interface (MCI) which is a bit like screen scraping and I suspect Monzo wouldn’t support it. The same issue exists with The Co-Operative Bank, Smile, and John Lewis Finance
I’d suggest customers of these banks/cards should get onto them and urge them to support Open Banking APIs instead of MCI.
Don’t know if it’s been said, but after just playing with connected accounts a little bit, I notice now the “tapping home” action cycles you through all your top-level accounts, including the connected ones.
I would, personally, like the ability to turn the connected account cycle off - I’d want to switch more readily between Monzo / Monzo Joint than the others, as I use these two accounts almost daily.
Appreciate that’s not the case for everyone, but I think that behaviour would be nice to toggle on off depending on use.
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Toggles!
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I was thinking a tap-and-hold popover would be a good solution for this.
Something like this from the Twitter app Tweetbot, with images of each card:
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Why not First Direct as a bank? It is bigger than many of those included??
That’s because First Direct is already integrated in Plus.
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Personally I’d like to see these (only because I have them obviously lol):
Credit Cards
Tymit (fairly new so can’t see this being on here anytime soon, but I can dream!)
Amex (Already voted at the top for this)
Savings
Moneybox (already selected them for investments but I have savings with them)
Strowz (again, another new one but with good potential)
It’d be nice to see integration with pension providers like The People’s Pension too, but I don’t think that’ll happen for a good while yet. Other than that, these are my thoughts 
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Perhaps a bit of a silly question - but I had a quick scan around and can’t find any other material on it. Does anyone know if Monzo have ‘committed’ to doing a deeper integration with the external accounts, as something they are actively planning to do?
I would love to start using Monzo as my main account, but the vast majority of my spending is done on credit cards in order to get the benefits, then paid off in full at the end of each month. I was hoping the external account integration with Plus would treat any transactions on external accounts the same as transactions on the Monzo card (i.e. subject to adding to categories, being part of budget breakdowns etc), but it doesn’t seem to be the case right now. Was just wondering if it’s because they wanted to get something out there and then iterate, or if this is just the plan for the foreseeable future?
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I wouldn’t say they’ve committed but it’s definitely been mentioned as a possibility a number of times. Even way back when they were doing cards through truelayer.
I think it‘s an obvious next step and so reasonable to assume that if the open banking team have said, as they have, that easy bank transfer was just the start of their work, then it’s probably at least on a roadmap somewhere 
Curious if there could ever be Freetrade
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