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MSE News: Monzo to ditch its prepaid card from April

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Monzo prepaid card holders won't be able to use them from 'early April' and will instead have to sign up to a current account, the app based bank has announced.
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Works exactly the same except has all current account features you would expect
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That's not true you can still top up using a debit card. But I don't know why you would want to when you can use a bank transfer instead.
I've upgraded. Works the same from using debit cards to top it up, and saves having to go to a cash machine to get your money out - you can just FPS it straight back to your bank account.
In theory you could perhaps earn interest on money you don't have, because it takes a couple of days to leave your bank account when topping up, you can pay it back in before its left!
Because certain current accounts pay rewards for using your debit card (Co-Op and TSB)
I have since enabled the option for the fingerprint scanner to be required to open the app and thought it worth pointing out in case others have gone the same route.