https://dailyfintech.com/2016/11/23/scaling-a-challenger-bank-from-the-back-to-the-front/
Published today with a couple of references to Monzo:
Challenger bank Monzo (formerly known as Mondo) in the UK are fairly vocal about their use of microservices in the technology stack. Anyone interested in learning about their story should read Building a Modern Bank Backend.
A must read from Dave Tongue on this topic can be found on Medium. His article, ‘Why Mondo will blow Atom out of the water’, takes a look at the UX-ing banking approach verses the re-imagined backend approach when comparing these two challenger banks side by side.