Fintech credit cards

Banking
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Just wondered if anyone had any recommendations for fintech credit cards?

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Tymit would be the #1

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Yes I second Tymit, I’m currently on their booster card

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If you have any interest in seeing your transactions in an aggregator like Emma or Yolt, my recommendation would be don’t go for a ‘fintech’ credit card. I don’t think any provide access via open banking.

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Amex…
unless your talking more about new credit card companies? In which case I haven’t been that satisfied with any of them. Amex though I’ve been very happy with their tech and app is good

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Bringing this thread back because I would like to get away from Barclaycard but there have never really been any good alternatives and obviously tymit is gone now.

Is there anything else out there now I maybe don’t know about?

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Monzo Flex and Zopa are the two that spring to mind. Also Chase if they offer it to you (I think it’s still in beta).

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I completely accept it’s not exactly what you mean as regards to an actual credit card, but almost fintechy, Paypal Credit. My own latest credit card acquisition, has been a HSBC 21 month interest free card. I don’t have a HSBC account, but I can use a piece of their App to manage my card. Personally, I find the HSBC App a bit crap, but that’s my personal experience of it.

As far as PayPal Credit is concerned, ok, so there’s no rewards but I use it all the time for £100 plus purchases just to make use of the interest free periods. PayPal gave me a £3k credit limit on application, which is absolutely fine for what I use it for. I can manage all my payments etc in App which I find better than some of the banking Apps out there.

I’ll certainly apply for a Chase credit card if I’m offered one, but only if it comes with an interest free promotion of significance.

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A zopa credit card is now on the way.

I’ll get rid of everything Barclays and then I will be fully fintech :joy:

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And you’ll likely have access to your money, too :blush:

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I’d be very interested to learn how you get along with it :slight_smile:

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I’ve opened a Zopa bank account out of curiosity as well. Very basic but I don’t hate it :thinking:

I’ve put £300 into the regular saver and I’ll do some spending with it.

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One long standing weakness of Zopa credit cards has been it didn’t support access via open banking APIs.
However, this has changed recently: https://developer.openbanking-sandbox.zopa.com/
So if you happen you happen to use an account aggregator may be worth asking that aggregator to integrate.

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Hope you never need customer service :grimacing:

Closed mine. Awful.

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It’s very rare for me to contact Starling and I’ve never had any major issues so I’ll just hope for the same.