They have made a number of acquisitions recently, so it does indeed look like they are pivoting towards those products and away from their credit card.
I’ve still got spend on my Tandem card which might be refunded (events rescheduled to next year which might yet be cancelled).
They’ve been pretty efficient about refunds on my cashback card over the last year, but I’m a bit concerned if they will still have the admin to efficiently process refunds after they get out of credit cards altogether - I know they will have to in theory, but it worries me…
It depends on how the cards are closed out with MasterCard. If they terminate their agreement with MC, you’ll find merchants won’t be able to make refunds onto the card (they’ll either get an error if processing the refund in real time or the refund will be returned to them) and they’ll have to refund you via another method.
Chase left the Canadian market a few years ago and that’s what eventually happened, I’m sure it was a minor inconvenience but on the other hand they did also write off all the debt on their Marriott and Amazon credit cards about a year after the cards were shutdown.
Well one thing is for certain - the app is about to become featureless. Fixed Saver accounts or an Instant Access account. It’s what happens when investors only want you as a deposit book.
That’s a shame. I don’t remember them saying “become a co-founder and you may get a share if we ever get round to it” when they did that marketing campaign in 2016 which got them thousands of followers.