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3 ways TikTok's FinTok subculture is leaving the establishment in its dust
3 ways TikTok's FinTok subculture is leaving the establishment in its dust
If you're not on TikTok where on earth have you been for the last 9 months? The incredibly popular…
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Is the Monzo honeymoon over?Jun 5, 2020
Is the Monzo honeymoon over?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a business promising to disrupt the banking industry through great mobile…
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I'll miss Valtech... here's what I learned.May 31, 2016
I'll miss Valtech... here's what I learned.
TL;DR: Here are three things to think about when searching for a job out of university: Don't chase the money - that…
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Marketers should be striving to make themselves obsolete as soon as possibleMar 24, 2016
Marketers should be striving to make themselves obsolete as soon as possible
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Hey everybody, come see how good we look!Nov 2, 2015
Hey everybody, come see how good we look!
It's a shameless plug really, but we did a cool thing with a shoe. Alright so perhaps it's a bit early on Monday for me…
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The secret personal attributes key to professional success: Arrogance, Volume and Great Hair.Sep 27, 2015
The secret personal attributes key to professional success: Arrogance, Volume and Great Hair.
Another week has gone by, another gruelling but fantastic 1/52nd of a year in the world of post-graduate professional…
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Marketing Technologies: Essential, or Buzzword Bullsh*t Bingo?Jul 29, 2015
Marketing Technologies: Essential, or Buzzword Bullsh*t Bingo?
If you were in any doubt about the unprecedented growth of technological drivers in Marketing, perhaps this infographic…
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Jack Stevens posted thisIt’s not a secret that I’ve been a philistine when it comes to AI but the last few weeks I’ve been trying to see how I let this guy called Claude into my life and so far the results have been eye opening. As a somewhat anxious overthinker it’s proving valuable for: interrogating my feelings, diving into the technicalities of my mindset and structuring my problem solving in a way that makes the most of my strengths and picks out my blind spots. And at the end of each response it challenges me to think more, not just offer an arbitrary or patronising punchline which doesn’t add value. There’s lots of people who will be much more mature in their usage of these platforms than me but maybe I’m getting there…
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Jack Stevens reposted thisJack Stevens reposted thisI reviewed over 100 pension plans last year. 89 of them had the same problem. The default fund. When you join a workplace pension, you're automatically placed into a default investment fund. Most people never change it. Most people don't know they can. The default fund is designed to be inoffensive to everyone. Which means it's often not optimal for anyone. Here's how to check yours in under 10 minutes: 1. Log into your workplace pension portal (Nest, Aviva, Legal & General, Scottish Widows, whoever your employer uses) 2. Find your current fund name 3. Google it, look at the 5 and 10-year annual return 4. Compare against a global index fund benchmark If your default fund is returning 3-4% annually while global equity funds are averaging 7-9%, you are losing significant compound growth every single year. You don't need to be an expert to fix this. You just need to know it's an option. Want to know what to look for? DM me "PENSION" and I'll walk you through it.
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Jack Stevens shared thisYou can’t help but start to think about the opportunities this presents the business! The future’s bright.
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Jack Stevens shared thisIt was a privilege to attend the 125th Anniversary Alumni afternoon at SALESIAN COLLEGE FARNBOROUGH on Saturday, 18 years after leaving. I had the most amazing time at school and it brought about a nostalgic joy to see so many of the teachers who shaped me and sent me out into the world back in the corridors that somehow still smell the same. To reminisce with old friends who now have families and important jobs and are finding success in all avenues of life was really special. And to experience this alongside over 200 other alumni belting out our cheesy school song was food for the soul. I look forward to heading back to talk to prospective sixth formers in a couple of weeks. Generally my goal is to reinforce the message that not having a plan at 16 years old is absolutely fine. That your attitudes, work ethic and resilience contribute just as much to your journey as any idea of where you’re heading. How much of that message lands at 4.30 on a Friday afternoon is still up for debate. Here’s to the next 125 years… though it’s unlikely I’ll be there to celebrate it 😂
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Jack Stevens posted thisIt’s been the most ridiculous end to the year. A great couple of weeks reflecting on the successes and progress of this team of interesting problem solvers, design experts, strategists, dev specialists, research gurus, architects I feel great privilege looking forward to a such an ambitious 2026 with genuine excitement. This is the best job I’ve ever had and it’s all down to the culture, the purpose and the people (too many to mention): Lou N. Damian Turcinov David Stevens Ewa Woollcombe-Adams Parveen Plaha Steph Woodbine Tim Caynes ✨ Rob Farquhar Mike Laurie Sofie Evans Joe Puddle Jessica K. Gunjan Kumar Mark Ballantyne Edmond Lee Tobias Castelberg Penny Mclachlan Arjun Baskaran Asmita Gore Nandkishore Agarwal Vinayak Dongre Nicholas Whitehead Alexandra Mnohoghitnei, MBA David Hawkins I hope everyone has a great run-in to Christmas and a wonderful break 💚
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Jack Stevens reposted thisJack Stevens reposted thisFantastic day with the Coutts Digital Experience & Design (DXD) team yesterday! Incredible highlights from the year, some very exciting things to look forward to next year, and a wonderful combination of Christmas-themed connection, collaboration and celebration! Thank you to Julia Hauss Violeta Dordik Will Bales Sofie Evans for organising an awesome day! ❤️ 🎄🎅🏼🧑🏼🎄🎁🔥
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Jack Stevens reposted thisJack Stevens reposted thisOnly 7 weeks into role but excited to be #hiring for 3 x very talented Senior Product Designers to work alongside Jack Stevens on an amazing programme that will transform digital experiences for our Commercial, Complex and Family Office clients. Coutts is an incredible business and brand on an amazing digital journey under the guidance of Lou N.. There’s no better to time to join us and help shape the digital future of one of the world’s most iconic Private Banking and Wealth Management businesses. Working pattern: Hybrid (minimum 2 days / month in office, however, we usually aim for 2 days / week for collaboration) Office location: 440 Strand (near Charing Cross, Embankment, Covent Garden) Tips for aspiring applicants: - I’m interested in the impact you’ve had, not just your responsibilities - bring your personality to life in your application - private banking and commercial banking ain’t the same as retail. I strongly suggest preparing a portfolio that shows your experience of understanding complex client needs, how you tackled the problem, your approach to collaboration and the impact of what you delivered. Tips for recruiters: Not this time thank you! EDIT notes from original post: For clarity, this isn’t just one role; hiring for 3 roles (!!!) at the same level for the same program. One is slightly more design systems / geared towards component and pattern building. #design #productdesign #privatebanking #hiring #commercialbanking #designsystems #designthinking #fintech #uxui
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Jack Stevens shared thisLike everyone else, 2026 planning is well underway and the excitement across the business is palpable. As such, I have a rare opportunity to join my team as a Digital Experience Lead. The role will support me on key strategic initiatives here at Coutts, defining and delivering experience excellence for our most complex clients. Someone with a background in FS consulting, product management, experience strategy or similar would be ideal for the role, which has huge growth potential and the chance to learn something new every day. Life at Coutts itself is very rewarding, and from the people to the projects themselves I haven't found anywhere like it! Applications will be open until CoB on 17 November, but if you'd like to learn more then please reach out, I'll do my best to get back to everyone! Apologies, but I can't at this stage work with external recruiters! https://lnkd.in/d22VE8AC Damian Turcinov Lou N. David Stevens
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Jack Stevens reacted on thisJack Stevens reacted on thisIt’s getting weird out here. Everyone and their mother has a framework now. Some guy discovered agents three weeks ago and wrote a manifesto. The guy telling you Figma is obsolete has 47 Notion pages about his AI workflow and not a single shipped product in his portfolio. Someone discovered vibe coding two months ago and is now telling designers to learn to code or become irrelevant. Nobody knows what the hell is going on. Not you. Not me. Not the guy with 80,000 followers cranking out hot takes like its a second job. which, to be fair, it probably is. Some days AI saves me three hours. Some days I spend three hours arguing with Claude like it owes me money. The only advice I have for designers right now: We’ve been here before. Quark to InDesign. Flash to HTML5. Every time the tools changed someone said design was dead and someone else just kept shipping. Try stuff. Break it. Figure it out. Try again. Touch grass. Ship things. That’s the only framework that’s ever worked. Comment ‘PROMPTDADDY’ and I’ll DM you a blank Figma file. Throw it at Claude with the Figma MCP and watch it fill itself in.
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Jack Stevens liked thisJack Stevens liked thisThe thing I love about this industry is that you often work with peope you already have a rapport with or work with like minded people that you ‘click’ with instantly and it just makes getting those deals closed that much easier…. However…every now and again there is always one smart arse point scoring 🫠
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Jack Stevens reacted on thisJack Stevens reacted on thisPSA for tomorrow for anyone who thinks that a pregnancy related April Fools joke is funny. Take it from me....it is not. Every year without fail on 1 April I always see "jokes" from people announcing their pregnancy followed up with "April Fools", and it really grinds my gears. Please think about who it might hurt before you post these, and this year with April 1 being quite close to Mother's Day which was earlier this month, it hurts even more for me 😢 😢 #ThinkBeforeYouPost #EmptyArmedMother
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Jack Stevens reacted on thisJack Stevens reacted on thisToday I bought bread from this bread stall in the city. The service was terrible. Here’s what it taught me about B2B sales …. Just kidding of course. From now until summer this is what my life looks like as I once again take advantage of the generous Swedish parental leave policies. A life of playgrounds, baby swim classes, and “latte pappa” life, whilst also taking nap times to improve my swedish and work on a few PowerBi projects i’m excited about. But most of all i’m excited to just hang out with little Arthur.
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Jack Stevens liked thisJack Stevens liked this*Update - Thanks everyone who reached out, I was overwhelmed by the amount of people wanting to help out with this! I've now narrowed down to a shortlist and I unfortunately can't respond personally to everyone, so if you haven't heard from me directly then assume I'm all set with someone else. Much love to all those grinding out there* Hi everyone, I'm seeking a freelancer or specialist agency to support with: • Commercial deck creation (sales-led, partnership, growth narratives) • PowerPoint presentation design and template build • Strong visual storytelling and layout skills • Photoshop capability for image bespoke work and partner personalisation This will be ongoing support across commercial, partnership and growth projects. Experience working with sports properties or premium brands is a must have. If you specialise in high-impact presentations and know how to turn strategy into compelling visual decks, I’d love to connect. Please drop me a message with examples of relevant work or tag anyone you’d recommend.
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Alex Taylor Noble
IFS • 4K followers
New entry for The 1% Diaries: A quick-fire masterclass on upcoming UX trends for 2026, with Product & Service Design expert Megs Armour We talked about: → How proactive product design means products now bring features to users → Interfaces are becoming conversations - always in your ear suggesting, optimising, and assisting everyday tasks. → When conversations are done right, they’re not just problem solvers, they’re strategy starters. → The two new camps in software design: • Embedded - layering conversations into existing products. • Orchestrated - being visible within LLMs, where you’ve lost native context and control. → Early adopters like Expedia and Figma are building apps within LLMs, focused purely on tasks, transactions and intent. 💡 Megs’ take? 2026 will be the year brands learn to operate in both worlds – embedded and orchestrated - while maintaining brand authenticity. And that ties to something we’ve heard Phil say last night: Don’t obsess over your direct competition. Be confident your brand is differentiated enough that even LLMs can’t swallow your proposition. We filmed this one at Farzi London during the GOODFOLIO Ventures Insiders launch - huge thanks to Megs for sharing such sharp, thought-provoking insights, and to Jessica for putting on a brilliant evening. PS. Forgive the concentration face - I was absorbing info like a sponge 🧠 #The1PercentDiaries #UXDesign #AI #Innovation
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Giac Soliman
Range • 5K followers
Two weeks on from Klarna’s IPO, my feed is still full of RSU angst. Klarna’s former RSU programme is a reminder that design details decide outcomes. Reports describe employees learning at listing that units converted at roughly 4 to 1, which turned headline grant sizes into fewer tradable shares, denting trust. The timing of tax hurt too. Staff were taxed at vest on earlier, higher valuations, then watched the share price fall, with some bills swallowing much of a monthly paycheque. Context matters, the IPO priced near $15 billion versus a 2021 peak of about $46 billion. What to build into your plan next time 1️⃣ 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 in offer packs and FAQs. If 4 RSUs equal 1 share, say it clearly and model the effect at different prices. 2️⃣ 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝘅 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘆. Pre-agree sell-to-cover and guarantee usable windows at, or immediately after, vesting and listing. 3️⃣ 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀-𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲. Share tables that show take-home after tax under bear, base and bull scenarios, not only the on-offer headline. 4️⃣ 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲. Anchor comms with simple, dated facts on pricing and valuation so employees know what changed and why. 👉🏼 If a plan needs perfect markets, perfect timing and perfect understanding to feel fair, it is not fair. Design for clarity, liquidity and downside. ______________ Disclaimer: this post is not a critique of Klarna. It summarises themes widely discussed by press and by employees to extract practical lessons for HR and Reward leaders.
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Megs Armour
Strata • 7K followers
It’s been almost a year since we started our experience management journey at Lloyds Banking Group; it’s becoming our design system for CX. We’re about to scale it, so I thought I would reflect on what we’ve learnt over these last 12 months. 1. Your experience hierarchy and journey framework are the backbone of your system. It is the shell that structures experiences at different levels across customer types, products, and channels. You won’t see results until everyone can embrace it. 2. Your hierarchy and framework must work on paper, on a digital whiteboard, and in sophisticated software. There cannot be barriers to entry. 3. This system turns journeys into data products that require structured inputs (like OKRs, analytics, quant and qual research), and structured outputs (like opportunities, propositional bets, and solutions). 4. This, in turn, invites your whole company to align on how you structure and classify metrics, research, opportunities, and solutions cohesively. This is a hard task at enterprise level. 5. This system isn’t a design thing or a CX thing; it’s a real-time outside-in view of how your business is serving customers. It only sticks if product, design, engineering, marketing, operations, etc., all embrace it. This takes a hell of a lot of storytelling and pitching. 6. You can see and feel results such as reduction of siloes and duplication, more efficient delegation of backlog items, and faster design-to-delivery cycles after (approx) 10 end-to-end journeys go live. The language and way of working becomes a domino effect across the organisation, at all levels. 7. This opens the door to conversations about journey-centric operating models— what would that look like, and what would it take? 8. Like a design system, it needs a governance model (and a core team) to create, maintain, and remove components.
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Angus Ewing
Nedbank • 4K followers
We talk a lot about the “design process,” but at enterprise scale, processes aren’t enough. What we really need are Enterprise Design Requirements (EDRs). EDRs define what “good” and “done” look like across journeys, UI, content, accessibility, AI behaviour, and handover, giving leaders confidence that design is consistent, compliant, and ready for build. I unpack how EDRs connect to design frameworks, principles, and design systems in my new Medium article. If you’re leading design, product, engineering, or AI teams, this one’s worth a read. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dZXB2aZr #DesignSystems #DesignLeadership #EnterpriseUX #AIDesign #DesignOps #UXStrategy
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Sk Sunjur Ahmed
BRAC Bank PLC • 5K followers
The Future of Banking: Built on Empathy, Not Just Code I recently watched an interview with TS Anil, CEO of Monzo, and it completely reframed my perspective on the future of our industry. It was a masterclass in how to think about innovation, and he made a powerful point: the biggest barriers to progress aren't technological—they're cultural. He spoke with incredible clarity about the challenges holding many traditional banks back: Legacy banks often prioritize defending old business models over embracing truly disruptive innovation. Endless stakeholder meetings and organizational inertia create a culture of stagnation, killing momentum for meaningful transformation. Many incumbents are afraid to cannibalize their historical revenue, which makes genuine, customer-first change nearly impossible. This cycle is frustrating, and it's something many of us have seen firsthand. But here’s what’s exciting: Monzo is tackling this from a completely different angle. Their entire mission is built on a single, powerful question: “How do we put better tools in our customers’ hands, so they make better choices and feel less anxiety about their money?” This question is their North Star. Every decision, from engineering to design, is focused on making banking interfaces human, accessible, and genuinely supportive. It’s not about flashy features; it's about alleviating stress. Anil shared his vision for how this philosophy will shape the next decade of banking: Moving beyond generic alerts to tailored guidance that simplifies financial decisions. Imagine your bank helping you proactively navigate a big life change. This goes beyond a slick app. It's about building tools that actively reduce financial anxiety and put control back in the user’s hands. Leveraging an "always-on" feedback loop with a vocal, engaged community to build with users, not just for them. Ultimately, Anil predicts a future where your bank doesn’t feel like a faceless institution. It feels like a “best friend in your pocket”—a partner that nudges you supportively, adapts to your life goals, and genuinely has your back. The lesson for us all, whether in a legacy institution or a nimble startup, is profound: True banking innovation isn't just about the product; it's about empathy. It’s about empowering people to make smarter, less stressful choices with their money. The banks that remember the human on the other side of the screen will be the ones that win the future. https://lnkd.in/gFprViWy
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Dina White
Zodia Markets • 10K followers
💷 Bank of England - new design notes for a potential digital pound 💷 Two design notes published today: 1️⃣ Product strategy: ➡️ Outlines the Bank of England's (BoE) emerging thinking on the product strategy for a potential digital pound. 2️⃣ Interoperability models for UK based payments: ➡️ Sets out the BoE’s emerging thinking on potential interoperability models for a digital pound. Today, we look at the first. Later this week, the second. 🔴 Product strategy Two primary motivations in considering a digital pound: ✅ Preserving the singleness of money (all forms of sterling money are valued equally and interchangeable with each other). ✅ Supporting innovation, choice and efficiency across the UK payments system. These guide the BoE’s work during the design phase. In the proposed public-private platform model: 👉 BoE operates the core ledger 👉 regulated private firms deliver user-facing services ➡️ Initial product strategy would focus on enabling intermediaries to deliver a compelling proposition for individuals. ➡️ Individuals are the primary focus in early stages, but merchant readiness at launch is also necessary. ➡️ Intermediaries (not BoE) would design and provide the digital pound ‘product’ to their customers (individuals and businesses). ➡️ BoE, through its design choices, would enable intermediaries to offer services that meet individual and business needs and provide value. ➡️ Payment interface providers (PIPs) would design the product. Each stage of the product roadmap would prioritise intermediaries delivering a specific set of capabilities for digital pound end-users, with each creating new digital pound use case possibilities. BoE has used a high-level, three-stage structure to reflect its product strategy – Initial, Near and Later. But before then, there would be preparations to ensure a functioning digital pound ecosystem at launch. This would involve: ✔️ pilot testing of product features ✔️ securing participation from intermediaries and businesses ✔️ setting expectations to the public Then, the ✳️ Initial ✳️ stage would involve a nationwide launch of a digital pound and extend for a period afterwards (e.g. up to two years). The primary focus would be the product proposition for individuals. The ✳️ Near ✳️ stage would be significantly longer, with more capabilities enabled, some specifically targeted at improving the business proposition. By the end of this stage, the digital pound should be well positioned to deliver on the core policy motivations. The ✳️ Later ✳️ stage would ensure the digital pound product continues towards the BoE’s vision, remaining adaptable to feedback from ecosystem participants, emerging technologies, and new payment trends, and continuing to support the core policy motivations. 💡 The vision? A future state of the world where a digital pound is used and the BoE is delivering on its core policy motivations. Thoughts? 👇 #BankofEngland #cbdc #payments
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Gazi Yar Mohammed
Kube Money • 10K followers
The Future of Banking: Human, Helpful, and Proactive This recent interview with Monzo Bank’s CEO was both truly insightful and highly pragmatic. If you’re a banker or fintech professional passionate about building the digital bank of the future, this insight is a must-watch. He highlighted some major challenges facing traditional banking: → Legacy banks often protect their old business models instead of embracing true innovation. → Organisational inertia and “stakeholder management” slow down meaningful transformation. → Incumbents avoid bold action that might disrupt their historical business, making meaningful change almost impossible. Monzo is tackling this differently: → Their mission: “How do we put better tools in customers’ hands, so they make better choices and feel less anxiety?” → Design and technology focus on making banking interfaces human, accessible, and supportive. Monzo’s CEO shared how banking can evolve: → AI & Personalisation: Tailoring tools and guidance to make decisions simpler. → Customer-Centric Design: Putting better tools in customers’ hands to reduce financial anxiety. → Community-Driven: An “always-on” feedback loop with a vocal, engaged user community. TS Anils predicts a future where your bank feels less like a faceless institution and more like a “best mate in your pocket”—nudging, supporting, and adapting to your life goals. The lesson? Banking innovation isn’t just about products—it’s about empathy, design, and empowering people to make smarter choices. #Banking #FinTech #Innovation #CustomerExperience #DesignThinking #Monzo https://lnkd.in/eBrt_RYN
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Jimena Santillán
Sharp AI Labs • 9K followers
Monzo Bank is catching the investment wave and quietly preparing for its next chapter. The UK neobank is reportedly exploring a private share sale, allowing existing investors and employees to sell shares to new backers. It’s not about raising fresh cash. It’s about signaling confidence, unlocking liquidity, and setting the stage for what comes next. The highlights of such a move: ✨ It gives Monzo flexibility without dilution. A secondary sale lets the company test investor appetite and benchmark its valuation ahead of a potential IPO. ✨ It strengthens trust and talent retention. Liquidity events like this reward early employees and keep top talent motivated. ✨ It attracts strategic investors who could accelerate Monzo’s global ambitions, including its long-term plans for expansion in the US. But this move also sends a deeper message. Monzo is no longer just a UK challenger bank. It’s evolving into a global fintech player, one balancing growth, profitability, and compliance maturity after a record year of revenues surpassing one billion pounds. For users, this could mean: ✅ More innovative features and product investments ✅ A stronger and more stable partner as it scales internationally ✅ Access to new markets and currencies through future expansion The challenge? Maintaining the same user experience, transparency, and community-driven brand that made people fall in love with Monzo in the first place. #Fintech #DigitalBanking #Monzo #Innovation #Investments #FutureOfFinance
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Yuval Samet
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After founding RiseUp in 2017 and growing to serve 100,000+ consumers..we’re now scaling through partnering with banks and financial institutions in the UK. Not a lot of B2C companies add a B2B2C motion… it’s rare. But we have - and here’s the inside scoop on how (and why) we made the shift: Some background on me: I grew up in a modest home outside Tel Aviv. My father was a production line worker at a heavy metal factory and my mother stayed at home with us. After selling my first startup to Klarna in 2011, I joined the company as Chief Product Officer and later served as CTO. Those years taught me how to build financial infrastructure at scale. But when I returned to Israel, I wanted to solve a deeper, more personal problem: To help build something that would actually help people feel in control of their financial lives. I partnered with Iftach Bar, a brilliant engineer, and Tamara Harel-Cohen, talented veteran of the media world. Together, we built RiseUp to give people something most fintechs overlook: timing, relevance, and real-world financial action. And it worked. People saved more. Paid down debt. Made smarter choices. We built trust. We built momentum. But over time, we noticed something: We realised that if we really wanted to scale our impact, we couldn’t do it alone. We had to go where the financial decisions were already happening: inside banks, platforms, and institutions. That’s where the data lived. That’s where the journeys started. And that’s where the biggest opportunity was to drive change at scale. So we made a strategic decision: → Stop building AROUND the system → Start building WITHIN it That’s how RiseUp evolved - from a consumer product to a platform powering banks and financial institutions. Now we help banks, trading apps and other financial institutions activate their customers in smarter ways: - Based on real financial triggers - Without a full integration - With business impact in 30 days Same mission: better financial outcomes. Different distribution model. The results have been surprising - in a good way. It turns out when you meet people through the institutions they already rely on, everything moves faster: trust, adoption, outcomes. The piece below shares more about what we’ve been building - quietly - for the last 12 months: How AI + open banking + behavioural design can actually move the needle. And why we believe financial institutions can be part of the solution - if they’re equipped with the right tools. Grateful to the team, partners, and believers who helped us make this shift real. Curious to hear what you think! Read the article: https://lnkd.in/d-8itEf3
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