The Monzo Current Account Preview

[dlegresley (Damian)]

I am booked to visit Monzo towers and get my current account on Tuesday
Only concern is the best way to get from Guildford into London with the recent news about chaos at Waterloo… I am working so cannot afford to take all day over travel!
Looking forward to meeting some of the Monzo team and others from this forum!

[gallifreyangirl]

Cannot you go London road (Guildford) station, change at Epsom and go into London Victoria?

[anon72173902]

Guildford > Clapham Junction > London Victoria

[simonb]

Have The Verge posted about it? We haven’t offered any early access to press AFAIK, he just must have been selected randomly for an event.

[dlegresley (Damian)]

Thanks, though it looks like Clapham Junction is also on the avoid after 5pm list: http://m.nationalrail.co.uk/pj/disruption/details/C877AAD89EF148F6821622BA88B03F48
I am considering driving part way then getting the tube. Morden looks a good option as it should be a single train to Old Street.

[anon72173902]

The link does not work.

[Mikeee (Mike)]

Yep! Most convenient way - make sure you get a ‘bank branch’ train and you should be able to grab a seat and relax all the way to Old St

Not sure where you’re going to park though??

Alternatively you could get a train to Wimbledon station and then take the 131 bus to South Wimbledon station (a stop after Morden) and take a bank branch train to Old St.

[Avian946 (P Burrows)]

yup ill be keeping mine in a drawer for this very reason!!

[dlegresley (Damian)]

Ah, appears to be mobile browsers only. Full browsers have to go via this page: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/today.aspx - currently third item down.

Mikeee - thanks for the tips. There appears to be a small car park at Morden which I was hoping might be emptying at around 5pm. https://www.ncp.co.uk/find-a-car-park/car-parks/morden-stn-lul/

[caspararemi (Caspar)]

If you can drive to Morden the northern stret to Old Street is fine - pretty quick too. And you’ll get a seat since it’s the first station

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

Number of Monzo Users

I’ve just refreshed it for this evening’s rollout — getting near a good milestone

Following on from the above, if anyone can attend tonight’s event, I’d really appreciate it if you could take a photo of the slide showing the number of Monzo customers which looks like this. So that we can add that figure to our tracker of Monzo’s growth

Number of Monzo Users

Monzo has just hit 300k users today That means that Monzo’s gained another 100k users in less than two thirds of the time that it took them to reach 200k users. 100k 24th Jan > 200k 11th May = 107 days 12th May > 15th July = 64 days 64 / 107 = 60% I expect we’ll get official confirmation of this on Monday… (it wasn’t mentioned in the blog post announcing the initial rollout of the current accounts ).

[leonardh (Leonard)]

I’ll try do so - although i’ll probably be tucked in the corner trying not to spread this cold I have!

[hailstorm (Simon Porter)]

Any chance of knowing how many have signed up to the current account preview? I’d like to know my odds of getting picked.

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

Yes you can check that here -

Monzo Current Account Counter

You can see how many current accounts have been rolled out to users / are live on the Monzo.com homepage, towards the bottom of the page. The number on the home page only includes personal accounts and only once the card is activated. There’s also a Grafana page administered by @ylt which nicely maps this out: https://bankstats.joecarter.xyz/d/000000001/monzo-current-acc?refresh=5m&orgId=1 Historic Figures

June 2019 (+)

30/06/2019 29/06/2019 28/06/2019 27/06/2019 26/06/2019 25/06/2019 2…

[hailstorm (Simon Porter)]

That’s how many have current accounts. Not how many have applied for the preview.

[DaveTMG]

but doesn’t that just say how many have been handed out, rather than allow the calculation of the odds oif being invited?

[Frankiejr (Frank)]

Well I just couldn’t pass up another :mondo: invite so train tickets booked for next Tuesday! Will be a nice long journey from Sunny (currently rainy) Yorkshire.

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

Ah, I misunderstood. No we don’t know that. But knowing the odds isn’t going to make you more likely to get one either

[darylbleach (Daryl)]

There is more chance of a lottery win than getting a current account at the moment haha

[Rika (Scarlet)]

@darylbleach

There is more chance of a lottery win than getting a current account at the moment haha

Just looked at the numbers. I think I’m going to buy lottery tickets if that’s correct.