Monzo has a lot to offer in terms of a quality app, innovative products, and ability to respond rapidly to customer demand. However their service quality is lacking, without the history of an established bank they quickly fall short in how they handle customers finances and their products whilst advertised and marketed well, are not good financial decisions and in some cases such as Flex can harm customers. Their bank accounts and fees are ok for most and would appeal to the younger customers due to their apps etc, however they offer poor value on the paid accounts with little actual useful benefit beyond a different card design. They also have tendency to obscure or hide information in an effort to make things like loans or cards easier and quicker to apply for at the expense of customers being fully informed. This lack of clarity could harm customers as the ease of applying for products or services may lead them to make financial decisions not in their best interests. Flex is a good example of this, easy and quick to apply for an marketed as a credit card. However this is quite blatantly mis-selling as they are quick to tell you it isn’t a credit card the second you want to do something like a balance transfer. Flex should you end up paying interest is insanely expensive and a really bad product to use that many customers may end up using purely because it was easy and appeared simple so they didn’t do the research. Monzo know this and deliberately take advantage by defaulting to interest paying periods, offering high limits, and misleading customers. They similarly do the same with loans where the ease of applying and relative lack of upfront clarity means customers may not think to look elsewhere. Monzo is an ok bank, but don’t use anything beyond the basic account. If you want actual banking then look elsewhere for an established bank that is not driven entirely by marketing and fancy apps. I would summarise by saying that Monzo simply cannot be trusted to do what’s best for their customers and is more interested in treading a fine line between the bare minimum required by regulators and outright mis-selling of financial services. Personally I’d look elsewhere.