Re:Simple Bank Is Closing
by baby on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:03PM
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Some banks do (monzo and revolut)
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Re:Simple Bank Is Closing
by monsieurbanana on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:27PM
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I miss monzo so much :(
I moved out of the UK and sadly never found a real alternative.
I had a simple workflow that made me happy:
I had two budgets, one for fixed spenses such as rent and phone, another for everything else (food, taxi, entertainment, whatever). I'd divide my "everything else" budget by 30 and tell monzo to move everyday that amount into the credit card account.
So basically... A daily budget. It was something like 20-30 pounds per day. I wanted something more expensive than usual? I'd "save" for a few days.
It's not the most efficient budgeting, but it was so much fun.
Re:Simple Bank Is Closing
by eat_veggies on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:56PM
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I think Monzo is making moves to expand into the US. There's a waitlist (you might be bumped up if you were a UK customer?). I got one but didn't end up using it very often.
Re:Simple Bank Is Closing
by bumpkinjunkie on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:35PM
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They were, but then they hit funding issues in spring 2020 and appear to be scaling back their US expansion.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/09/monzo-to-shutter-las-vegas...
Re:Simple Bank Is Closing
by monsieurbanana on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:48AM
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I'm in Singapore, probably faster to wait for an asian neo-bank to appear than for Monzo to get here