That last line:
After that, we’ll ask you to verify yourself again.
Doesn’t seem right. Shouldn’t it be confirmation authorisation again
In this use case, they both effectively mean the same thing. I would say that while your suggestion may be more accurate, Monzo’s phrasing is slightly easier to understand and - more importantly - friendlier.
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That phasing just reads as if you personally is being verified rather than the permission/s you have granted. Maybe change yourself to this?
There is an interesting reason why it’s phrased like this, and it’s to do with the law and our interpretation of it 
Specifically under the law, Monzo must verify the identity of the customer and send them back to the third party. It is the responsibility of the third party (a licensed, regulated entity) to obtain the consent of the customer.
This means that banks can’t seek additional approval or perform additional checks as part of the authentication flow. Doing so might be considered anti-competitive and banks (rightly) need to show that they are not putting barriers in the way to make it more difficult for customers to connect to third parties.
This means we need to use appropriate language and keep the flow as short as possible.
When I have more time I will write a blog post on our Open Banking approach and I am also delivering this talk at Fintech Connect in December this year - but I don’t think it will be recorded sadly, so I might do an open office as well.
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It works! There is no use for this whatsoever (NatWest app is steam powered) but a great proof of concept. I’d ideally like to see my NatWest data in Monzo!
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No Monzo logo 
though. Typical NatWest!!
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They probably have to pay a fee or something to add a logo 
It worked very smoothly. Like you I’d love the NatWest account showing in Monzo instead. Hopefully won’t be too long before it happens
I’ve just updated my NatWest app, and I still don’t see Monzo in the list of banks available. Weird.
Monzo just showed up on my list, so I guess it’s a staged roll-out, but the flow breaks when Monzo tries to redirect me back to Natwest app:
I think it’s great that my Monzo current account shows up in my natwest app. As both banks are part of open banking is there any update on when I can link my natwest current accounts to my monzo app?
I know that credit cards are already linked
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Not yet. Monzo has said that its an aspiration, but nothing more than that, I’m afraid. 
(I want this too).
I should be able to give an update in the new year
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Fiscal or standard?
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Any plans to support Plaid in the US?
Revolut & Open Banking - does this actually work in-app or is this just a premature press release?;
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Monzo definitely need to improve their open banking offering - just looking at the news from Revolut - seems very interesting and I can see that swaying a lot of customers. It would definitely be very useful for me to be able to see my HSBC and Staring accounts within Monzo …
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I can’t believe that Revolut have beaten Monzo to this. Being a central hub is Monzo’s stated mission, yet they’ve barely developed the app’s functionality over the last year. Any news on Monzo’s plan/timeline to offer similar functionality?
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Yes it does. Not all banks available yet but most are there.
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