Monzo Staff Weekly Q&A - Rika Raybould (Payments Witch / Backend Engineer) 💰

[Rika (Scarlet)]

No plans but we keep looking at it. Hugo has a good explanation of why we’re hesitant to do it right now.

Monzo investor card - design concept (By Brice Corbin)

Just to be clear, our current setup is 100% intentional. There are some easy-to-miss benefits in using good old OCR embossed type. One is to make the card camera-friendly (already commented before, maybe not that important of a reason anymore). It also makes instantly obvious what’s the front face of the card, which is important when you need the slot-in the card in an ATM or POS (even though some machines have now readers in both sides). Another one is that in some places (this happens abroad…