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I'm not sure I'd class Mondo as a "passion Project" they're a company with a product in alpha (payment card) and in the process of getting FCA accreditation, wh

I'm not sure I'd class Mondo as a "passion Project" they're a company with a product in alpha (payment card) and in the process of getting FCA accreditation, which requires quite a bit of work to get started on... As to whether their vision of financial services takes off, I think that remains to be seen, but it's very interesting to see the large number of new banks starting up in the UK market which has previously been dominated by a few large players.

alexbilbie 11y ago
Aside from Mondo and Atom Bank who else is there?
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- raesene4 11y ago
  There's quite a crop, some of the ones I've seen so far - Starling http://starlingbank.co.uk/ http://starlingbank.co.uk/ - Tandem https://tandem.co.uk/ https://tandem.co.uk/ - Loot https://loot.io/ https://loot.io/ - Fidor https://www.fidorbank.uk/ https://www.fidorbank.uk/ - Metro (been around a bit longer but still relatively new) https://www.metrobankonline.co.uk/ https://www.metrobankonline.co.uk/ - Aldermore http://www.aldermore.co.uk/ http://www.aldermore.co.uk/
  - ultimatejman 11y ago
    and Moven https://www.moven.com/ https://www.moven.com/ - Curve http://www.imaginecurve.com/ http://www.imaginecurve.com/ Osper (kids bank) http://www.osper.com/ http://www.osper.com/ - Secco http://www.seccobank.com/ http://www.seccobank.com/ granted, osper, moven and curve are not much more than prepaid cards
  - iaskwhy 11y ago
    I have been a client of MetroBank since a few years ago and just love it. My recent experience with Aldermore has also been nice. Anyone tried any of the others?
    - aembleton 11y ago
      I was very happy with MetroBank until I moved away from London; they don't have a branch in Manchester yet. Also, their debit card now charges for purchases outside of Europe so they would charge me for AWS purchases. Now I'm with Halifax; the customer service is no where near as good, but at least I have a Mastercard with free foreign currency transactions.
      - mst 11y ago
        My Halifax branch staff have always been wonderful; fortunately for me, said branch is five minutes' walk from my office so I can basically go via there when walking into town to scavenge lunch. Otherwise, yeah, YMMV.
- krmmalik 11y ago
  FFREES and Monese. Although Mondo looks like it will be the most slick and feature rich
_lex 11y ago
I'd hope he's passionate about his business. I think you may have thought that I meant passion project as in "small, unimportant thing he's passionate about". I meant "thing he's passionate about". I think YC is probably sama's passion project.

alexbilbie 11y ago

Aside from Mondo and Atom Bank who else is there?

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raesene4 11y ago
There's quite a crop, some of the ones I've seen so far - Starling http://starlingbank.co.uk/ http://starlingbank.co.uk/ - Tandem https://tandem.co.uk/ https://tandem.co.uk/ - Loot https://loot.io/ https://loot.io/ - Fidor https://www.fidorbank.uk/ https://www.fidorbank.uk/ - Metro (been around a bit longer but still relatively new) https://www.metrobankonline.co.uk/ https://www.metrobankonline.co.uk/ - Aldermore http://www.aldermore.co.uk/ http://www.aldermore.co.uk/
- ultimatejman 11y ago
  and Moven https://www.moven.com/ https://www.moven.com/ - Curve http://www.imaginecurve.com/ http://www.imaginecurve.com/ Osper (kids bank) http://www.osper.com/ http://www.osper.com/ - Secco http://www.seccobank.com/ http://www.seccobank.com/ granted, osper, moven and curve are not much more than prepaid cards
- iaskwhy 11y ago
  I have been a client of MetroBank since a few years ago and just love it. My recent experience with Aldermore has also been nice. Anyone tried any of the others?
  - aembleton 11y ago
    I was very happy with MetroBank until I moved away from London; they don't have a branch in Manchester yet. Also, their debit card now charges for purchases outside of Europe so they would charge me for AWS purchases. Now I'm with Halifax; the customer service is no where near as good, but at least I have a Mastercard with free foreign currency transactions.
    - mst 11y ago
      My Halifax branch staff have always been wonderful; fortunately for me, said branch is five minutes' walk from my office so I can basically go via there when walking into town to scavenge lunch. Otherwise, yeah, YMMV.
krmmalik 11y ago
FFREES and Monese. Although Mondo looks like it will be the most slick and feature rich

_lex 11y ago

I'd hope he's passionate about his business. I think you may have thought that I meant passion project as in "small, unimportant thing he's passionate about". I meant "thing he's passionate about". I think YC is probably sama's passion project.