Drum roll please! 
… Here we go!
1. Best Monzo Launch (UK)
In joint last place (with no votes 
), we have:
- Android 12 Material Themed icons
- Cashback on international transfers (Plus/Premium)
- Charity Donations in App
- Flag transactions as repeated payments in connected accounts
- International Transfers for Monzo Business
- Merchant enrichment for connected accounts
- Pay for Flex from Pots
- Tesco Bank in Connected Accounts
- Virtual cards for Monzo Business
I think I speak for us all when I say that these are great features (some, like Pay for Flex from Pots) were very much requested, and some (like Flex six months interest free) will have a positive financial impact on their users. But with only one vote difficult decisions needed to be made and the competition was tough…
2. Best Monzo Launch (US)
There’s a clear last place for Monzo US feature launches - and it’s the only option that didn’t get a single vote
* Rename Connected Accounts
I mean, what gives?! One of two US-exclusive features on the list (y’all know the campaign to bring them to the UK starts here) and it gets nada. But the competition is brutal and takes no prisoners… Who will come out on top?
3. Best Community Moment
Coming in at joint last place, with no votes () we have…
I kinda think that these are a result of tough tough competition. That said, I had forgotten about the Flex adverts until I started researching the year in Monzo 2022 for this poll… And I loved the promise of the social payments research topic. Maybe it just petered out (no pun intended)? Or maybe it was just bested by the bigger ticket items?
4. Most Suffering Monzonaut
… Results under embargo until later in the reveals… 
5. Best Community Engagement
… Results under embargo until later in the process…
But I will tell you two things: a) I didn’t vote because I love them all (obvs) and b) the bottom place finisher is an absolute travesty and I’m not sure I can stand for it 
6. Most Anticipated New Feature
Every option got at least one vote! But bringing up the rear with a vote a piece, and starring as our proverbial partridges in pear trees, we have:
- Get Paid Early in the US
- Full Roll Out of Connected Mortgages
Now, I fear that two things are going on here: we already have connected mortgages in beta, so it’s not gonna be all new and shiny and amazing when it fully launches. And do I detect a bit of international bias going on here? More USians needed on here, I think! If we do this again next year, we’ll need to split the sections by country…
7. Best Monz/do logo!
The results for this one being freely viewable was one of my many polling failures of 2022 my Christmas gift to you!
But for the record, in joint last place we have…
The original Mondo logo:
and the first iteration of the Mondo “M” logo…
Do we have some recency bias here? Or is it because these were jolly well changed for a reason?!
Here’s the original Mondo logo in the wild on a hot coral, alpha card:
At least that original logo saw more public use! Tell me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think the first version of the M logo (also languishing at the bottom of our poll with 1% of the vote) ever saw public use (aside from maybe a blog post?) If I recall correctly, it had to be changed because it was too similar to someone else’s, leaving us with the
logo that we all know and love!
I’ve spent too long trying to find any Mond/zo sources for this - if you can find one, let me know - the only evidence I’ve found online (and where I got the logo from) was this interesting trip down memory lane: https://smartmoneypeople.com/news/post/6-challenger-banks-atom-civilisedbank-mondo-secco-starling-tandem.
Well folks, that’s today’s reveal. Anything that was surprising, unexpected or is it all going according to your devious plans?
Let’s have your thoughts, comments and predictions for winners below!