I think an advantage of an established bank is reputation effect (if bad things happen it hurts), FCSC and other protections, more resources. So as a large number of businesses fail with 5 years (so I guess reputation issues less helpful), how do you respond to the following? I really want to use…

A few days later when it was presented. No push for the authorisation (that wouldn’t be possible) but on presentment there was. I think. Now I’m doubting my memory…

Could you reply and answer my queries about Monzo security and fraud protection (fraud question added to wiki about now) Thanks

I feel some building societies are better maybe? I feel that banks/buildings societies have more resources maybe…

Additional questions as current post maybe too long to read for some users… :slight_smile: Fraud protection Could you go into more detail about this, as I think you don’t have a passcode on the app itself? I appreciate others have explained why this should or shouldn’t be an issue. However I vie…

No one seem to want to reply to answer the questions. Hopefully Monzo will be secure and I can start using it. All the best with it, looks like a good service! :slight_smile:

[image] ianlyon: We have the benefit of a supercomputer in your pocket This struck me - we do have a super computer in our pockets - in fact one iPhone X has almost as much processing power as all of the Cray 1 supercomputers sold! There were a hundred or so. It cost over $8 million dollars, …

Thanks, just would like some of the questions, answered i.e. “very difficult to revoke API access, don’t have pin protection for the app (on Android), show previous security questions and answers visible in the app (which is usually unprotected), and a number of other issues”

[image] anon29322166: very difficult to revoke API access You can contact us and we can revoke it on our end :+1: [image] anon29322166: don’t have pin protection for the app There is a fingerprint lock which uses the Android System APIs. This may fall back to PIN/password but I’ll che…

[image] anon41219820: We are aware of this, thanks ‘Aware of this’… we know that :exploding_head: You could do better than this. How about saying sorry we will be working to resolve this issue in future. [image] anon41219820: You can contact us and we can revoke it on our end When ar…

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