What is a bank?
Brick and mortar store?
Website?
Stupid plastic calculator?
What we think a bank should be
Available when you need it
Fast, simple, self service
Current banks have mobile apps, but if you need to do anything remotely complicated, or speak to a real human you need to find time during your day.
Full stack bank
Not buying in another banking system
Building our own processor direct with Mastercard
Integrated directly with payment schemes
Transferwise for international payments
Why? Deeper understanding of core technology enables us to innovate beyond traditional systems
“Dashboard” for your money
Flexible - works on your salary period
Having your salary and regular bills enables us to show you how much you have left
Early warning of financial difficulties
Bill splitting
Driven by Emojis (obviously)
Reflects our customers sending back 1p with a message to say thanks
How much we love our internal support
We aren’t seeking to remove this, just make life easier for you
Make responses faster by solving simple queries in the app
Based on learnings from your conversations with us
Allows you to resolve queries without ever needing to speak to someone
Same chat available if you need it, make us faster
MVP mindset, build things fast and iterate
Less focus on the minimum, focus on making a stable, beautiful product
Cut scope to try things out, work with our customers to improve and learn from our failures
Mindful of regulations, and the importance/sensitivity of the data we’re dealing with now.
Explain RT process in brief
Build -> Branch -> Internal Test -> Testflight -> App Store
Repeats every 2 weeks
Supports iteration without imposing deadlines
Talk in brief about gradual CA rollout (no dates)
Continue support for prepaid product
Both iOS and Android for CA
Transparent roadmap