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Product & Engineering insights from the Monese team

Our journey from mobile to web

Our journey from mobile to web

Here at Monese, we’re committed to providing financial freedom for our customers to live and work anywhere. Listening to our customers’…
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Jefferson Bessa
Apr 24, 2020
Tackling the fintech gender gap issue

Tackling the fintech gender gap issue

Why the inclusivity of female users in our industry matters
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Melissa Andrade
Mar 8, 2020
Monese on stage at the Paris Fintech Forum

Monese on stage at the Paris Fintech Forum

The future of fintechs, building trust among consumers, the clever use of data and more
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Monese
Feb 24, 2020
Product Design: Monese in Motion

Product Design: Monese in Motion

Our approach to animation
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Tomás de Vasconcellos
Feb 3, 2020
Mobile testing at Monese

Mobile testing at Monese

How we’re running 600 automated tests… in 3 hours
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Monese
Jan 24, 2020
Design QA; minimising design debt in a fast paced world.

Design QA; minimising design debt in a fast paced world.

Working in a tech startup can be pretty hectic. Your priorities often change on a weekly or even daily basis. The latter can happen at…
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Elle Mahoney
Jan 16, 2020
From product agency to FinTech startup — my journey of wanderlust

From product agency to FinTech startup — my journey of wanderlust

Monese is a mobile banking application serving over a million customers who live, work, travel, retire, study in another country, or have…
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Markko Hellat
Nov 19, 2019
Our takeaways from Droidcon Berlin 2019

Our takeaways from Droidcon Berlin 2019

Early last month, twelve awesome Monesers attended Droidcon Berlin 2019, an annual conference dedicated to Android development.
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Dmitri Bogatenkov
Aug 8, 2019
Our new Monese cards

Our new Monese cards

Changing direction
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Joe Allison
Jul 3, 2019
Monese + Avios: A current account that’s also a reward centre

Monese + Avios: A current account that’s also a reward centre

We’re always working to offer more potential and value to our customers. That’s why we’re the world’s first to link with your Avios…
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Santiago Vaquero
Jun 24, 2019
Putting our cards on the table

Putting our cards on the table

A design system for Monese’s new debit cards
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Harry Galuszka
Oct 31, 2018
‘Smart Transactions’ in symbiosis with Google Places

‘Smart Transactions’ in symbiosis with Google Places

It’s a beautiful Sunday morning and you’re having a relaxing road trip to the countryside. You drink your morning coffee in a local cafe…
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Monese
Jun 21, 2018
Observations from our recent hackathons…it’s all about the journey

Observations from our recent hackathons…it’s all about the journey

When picturing a hackathon, you may often think of engineers coding away for 48 hours in a dimly lit room, stocked with pizza and beer and…
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Monese
May 17, 2018
Deployment readiness for iOS — Trunk Based Development

Deployment readiness for iOS — Trunk Based Development

TLDR: Trunk Based Development has enabled the iOS team at Monese to be always ready for deployment. It has minimised the time overhead in…
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Monese
May 8, 2018
Building tools for teams — how we’ve built the internal tools that help us help our customers

Building tools for teams — how we’ve built the internal tools that help us help our customers

Simply put, Monese is made up of two sides. On the one side, there are the outward-facing mobile apps available on both Android and iOS…
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Monese
Apr 19, 2018
Our Journey with Scrum, Kanban and all things in between

Our Journey with Scrum, Kanban and all things in between

When I first joined Monese early in 2017, we worked in one week sprints and ran weekly planning poker sessions. The team would gather in a…
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Monese
Apr 11, 2018
Implementing smart transactions on Android using Kotlin

Implementing smart transactions on Android using Kotlin

Not everyone is aware of their spending habits….especially when you’re out and about going to different places. This is why the engineering…
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Monese
Apr 3, 2018
UX case study: Smart transactions and spending breakdowns using location data

UX case study: Smart transactions and spending breakdowns using location data

At Monese, we want people to bank freely wherever they are without all of the annoying, sometimes impossible, bureaucracy. That’s the…
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Monese
Mar 27, 2018
Developing a data informed product culture

Developing a data informed product culture

We live in an age where we have vast quantities of data and information, so much so that it can be difficult to filter out the noise. At…
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Monese
Mar 20, 2018
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