Testing Marketplace Beta

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

@Rob3

Surely if Monzo wants to be a real banking competitor they should offer their own savings accounts in the near term and even maybe a credit card in the long term.

They won’t fit the old definition of a bank that’s true

If they offered their own products (they won’t offer credit cards & as fair as I know, they don’t have plans to offer savings accounts), we’d miss out on these types of benefits -

@alexs

That means that rather than having to sign up for whichever bundle of services your bank’s decided are best for you (&/or most profitable for them), you’ll have a choice of providers for each service. So if you need cover for action sports in your travel insurance, for example, you won’t have to worry about whether that’s included & the providers will be competing, which should drive down prices.

By creating the marketplace, Monzo will (hopefully) make it easier for users to access these services & certainly make them easier to manage - as they’ll all be linked to your Monzo account. They’ll also be able to do clever things like spot when you might need travel insurance but forgot to buy it, before you left the country or remind you to cancel your breakdown cover, if you don’t renew your vehicle tax.