Didn’t think Starling would go physical—this could be interesting!
Context?
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I am still in, but moved to Revolut and happy 
Visually, Starling is not same as it was 
Even virtual cards looks awful now 
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Mental that Open Banking is behind a paywall.
Even more mental they get away with it.
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In all fairness, Monzo’s connected accounts are far better than basic Open Banking though. Categorising transactions and able to run spending Trends are Monzo’s USPs, until legacy banks catch up on that, they can get away with charging for it. 
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Have to agree with this.
When I was using RBS as my main account, I could pretty much ‘use’ the Monzo app instead of the RBS for much rich transaction insights, using trends etc (obviously apporving transactions etc needed to be the RBS app), but the integration is far superior than any other bank.
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They also clean up the merchant data for connected accounts which is a big plus in my eyes.
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To be fair there are dedicated apps like Emma, Snoop etc. that cost a fee to aggregate Open Banking data.
Anyway, to try and get this topic back to actually talking about Starling, I really wish they’d hurry up and add Spaces to Easy Saver, it was supposed to be “soon” back in mid-September….
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Real shame that Starling got rid of the pie chart/ spending circle. Felt it gave the app something a bit different from other banks. A good visual cue for where the money was going
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