Android app far behind ios version
Tenuous Starling link, but nothing that affects Starling today.
Cheers! I didnât know there was a Fintech Wales, so that gives me something to read for later on. Interesting to see prominent financial services companies popping up here --Wealthify being one that springs to mindâŚ
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I know itâs been a while since the change but my card needed replacing after a few years and Iâve got one of the ânewâ ones with the black text on the back. I previously had the green one but with white text on the back.
The front looks great but the black text on the back is a bit too âconstrastyâ for my liking. Because of the printing method itâs a bit spidery as well.
Missed this a week ago, but Starling is gearing up for another funding round.
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Yes, I agree that the black text doesnât look quite right.
I had an original Starling purple card, which I kept until it expired; it was then replaced with a teal and black-text one.
I do quite like the new card but I think the white text looked better - I have only seen that in photos though, never in person. I still think the original design was my favourite of the three variants (now there is even a new fourth variant which has been used in marketing showing âworld eliteâ on the card), but I do understand that it was probably considered insufficiently distinctive for a fintech.
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Talk of acquisitions too. Anyone want to guess who theyâll buy?!
Bet weâll have never heard of them. Itâll probably be some very âworthyâ addition to the business tooling or something behind the scenes. Which is all perfectly fine, but it wonât be that exciting
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You donât like Starling, do you? 
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If that is what you take from that, then so be it
I wonder if the world elite âshow-offâ is a subtle suggestion of imminent premium accounts?
Personally, I donât think itâs related (even though I do expect some kind of premium packaged account to appear relatively soon anyway).
Monzo cards are also world elite, and it just allows for certain things that card issuers can choose to turn on if they want, plus some extra processing improvements for the bank when dealing with Mastercard (as I understand it).
Itâs not really the badge of honour that the name might suggest.
Edit: I got some of this wrong, Monzo cards are actually World Debit - see below.
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Only plus/premium - the others are just world debit. World elite requires more travel related things to be offered to customers.
Itâd be good to have some visibility into the matrix of required offerings for each tier. Is this published, @erincandescent @rika?
Sorry, of course you are correct!
I read that post a while ago and thatâs where I got my information from, but with the similar-sounding names I just forgot the right title for Monzo cards.
I should have checked and looked it up.
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Itâs nearly 1am, Iâll cut you some slack.
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Just set this up. Fantastic, looks great. Finally an iPad-native app, rather than a zoomed iPhone one.
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To be fair, I wouldnât describe the previou version as zoomed (cough Instagram!!!) but portrait only was definitely far from ideal.
Itâs lovely to finally have a two pane transaction view.
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Iâve always been skeptical when looking at Starling but this is the final nail in the coffin for me to finally open a Starling account. Online banking, post office deposits and a native iPad app, excellent!
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And if they ever matched their pots with direct debits then they might just be a serious Monzo contender.
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