{"id":5390,"date":"2016-08-27T16:20:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T08:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/27\/banking-is-tough-when-youre-an-immigrant-this-app-changes-that\/"},"modified":"2016-08-27T16:20:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T08:20:36","slug":"banking-is-tough-when-youre-an-immigrant-this-app-changes-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/27\/banking-is-tough-when-youre-an-immigrant-this-app-changes-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Banking is tough when you&#039;re an immigrant. This app changes that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f159861%2fscreen_shot_2016-07-28_at_12.40.11_pm\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/IpE2WlgqiFtX8TZ-ugeAkfKFUko=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F159861%2FScreen_Shot_2016-07-28_at_12.40.11_PM.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Banking+is+tough+when+you%27re+an+immigrant.+This+app+changes+that&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fmonese-banking-app%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fmonese-banking-app%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Immigrants in most countries have a host of legal impediments that make many activities more difficult, but a new app called Monese (pronounced Muh-neez) is letting immigrants bank with less hassle in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike many banks that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatarrivals.com\/article\/finances-101-for-uk-immigrants\">require special fees for immigrants<\/a>, Monese offers low-cost international banking transactions and the option to withdraw and deposit money in multiple country. The app also claims you can open an account in under 3 minutes. Users must have a form of government-issued ID document to use the app.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/04\/anti-racist-letter-immigrants-brexit\/\">Londoners fight back against racism with moving message to immigrants<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/08\/26\/monese-banking-app\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/brexit\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Brexit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/uk\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Uk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/immigration\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Immigration<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/apps\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Apps<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/banking\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Banking<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/KZkSzBvB7SM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigrants in most countries have a host of legal impediments that make many activities more difficult, but a new app called Monese (pronounced Muh-neez) is letting immigrants bank with less hassle in the UK. Unlike many banks that require special &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/27\/banking-is-tough-when-youre-an-immigrant-this-app-changes-that\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[844,3021,1387,3371,760],"class_list":["post-5390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-apps","tag-banking","tag-brexit","tag-immigration","tag-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}