It actually takes a few minutes, or a few hours at most, however there is always an exception, so they state up to 3 days.
Exactly the same with Monzo, they can make the money instantly available, however if you are in a city that the only western union place is shut for 2 days, it won’t be instant. And there are many cities and countries where Western Union is only available at certain times or days. Even in the UK you can go to a Western Union shop and find they don’t have the cash to give you, which my mother has experienced many times getting her Italian Pension and that’s in a big English town. So Western Union doesn’t make anything quicker or easier, its just covers a lot of places.
Possibly Monzo’s finest decision making with the community was when you changed the atm withdrawal limits. You identified that something didn’t work, thought of some solutions, then asked your customers what they would want. With Monzo plus you have made a decision to reverse direction, forced it on your customers, and then told us it’s better.
I think everyone would have been happier if you said that custom bundles aren’t workable, then tried to find out if that was the layout of the app (my suspicion, so heavily suggested here), people’s ability to understand the offering, or something else and then made a more educated move to correct it.
Hope monzo rethink giving interest when taking or without to try help customers cause the current plus is not worth the money and I want remove interest to pay for stuff I want need
I actually feel better having interest on my monzo account and regular pots then I don’t need to put more in to savings pots and it gives me incentive to keep money at the bank cause before I sent most of my money to the building society but now the balances at the bank is growing quite a bit and it’s gonna keep growing as long as I get interest
And with curve metal I gain so much cashback so the amount I actually pay curve to what I get back shows there’s a lot to gain having interest and cashback rewards compared with money you pay out
I’ve never been a long term saver I’ve always saved and spent so monzo has changed everything my banking life turned around and interest on my monzo account big plus though not enough as I pay out but better than no interest and I would never give it up
Barclays Blue rewards is £4 a month and then you get £3.50 back for each of the first two direct debits to leave per month, along with cashback. For a current account, that generally works out far better than any interest you’d likely earn.
Halifax have a reward account that’s free and gives you £2 a month for paying in at least ~£900.
However, I’ve happily ditched Barclays to go full Monzo and make use of bill pots, because having a clearer picture of my finances is more important to me (and I got pretty fed up with a customer service team unable to do anything because the computer says no - changing my phone number and address after a house move was an ongoing 4 month saga).
Because the monthly maintenance fee allows you to guarantee a customer for a period of time, and by giving back more than the maintenance fee, the bank is likely only giving back a fraction of what it’s making with your money elsewhere.
Lloyds’ was only for a year and then was lowered to sub 1% - I’m still with them. Much better off just opening a savings pot with Monzo (yes I know it takes a business day but its only one business day etc etc) or going with Marcus if you want something better but in a different bank
