UK neobank Monzo has agreed to acquire online mortgage broker Habito as it expands its homeownership features—including tracking and brokering home loans—in its app. Neobank super apps create unique banking journeys that engage customers based on different needs as their financial lives progress. With an integrated mortgage broker, Monzo ties together its home insurance product and mortgage-tracking feature—and could debut a direct mortgage product in the future.

In 2026, a new financial ecosystem will form around five trends—stablecoins, agentic AI, consolidation, financial media networks, and AI search—blurring boundaries between banking, technology, and commerce.

The option can help boost customer engagement and build its brand awareness among potential new customers

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Showing card account info takes away an important touchpoint for banks and puts Apple at the center of the relationship

Monzo and Chip claim profitability, but UK conditions make their future outlook uncertain.

Since MPs pointed out incumbents’ failure to pass along higher interest rates to customers, at least 4 neobanks have upped their rates.

Banks know that Gen Z and Gen Alpha are the up-and-coming banking customers, and they’re offering numerous options to help teens and kids learn the ropes. We’re devoting this entire edition to an overview of the competitive landscape for FIs seeking to get these consumers while they’re young.

This third annual study ranks the four largest UK neobanks by customers based on their support of 49 emerging mobile banking features, weighted by consumer demand for each feature.

We look at how the tanking pound and growing economic uncertainty are affecting UK banks.

Though its new ad campaign claims to open the banking world to those normally left out, it misses groups truly in need.

They’re looking for work-life flexibility and better pay. But economic skittishness, dried up funding, and crypto instability point to a rocky future.

Technology decision-makers within the banking industry will need to balance high tech spending with the potential for regulatory disruptors.

The UK’s FCA found that the banks may have inadequate financial crime defenses.

In a Which? Survey, the UK neobank tied for the second-highest customer score—much-needed good news that it can capitalize on with consumers and investors.

Neobank funding bonanza shows promise still outweighs profitability—for now: Globally, challengers brought in large funding hauls that signaled investors’ continued confidence in the space. But their patience in the face of commoditization and unprofitability won’t be endless.

This report explores what’s driving UK neobanks’ growth and how incumbents can defend their share of the digital bank account holder market.

Monzo follows a slew of its global peers in winning a big funding round. Now these players must make smart spending decisions that demonstrate their maturity to investors.

Green neobank talks the talk, but does it walk the walk? Aspiration’s actual performance lags its promotion of itself as environmentally friendly. The reputational risk it’s facing is a warning to banking players that market ESG heavily.