And I didn't get crucified 🙏

The @wise marketing team going to town on Times Square today.

Hello NYC – at Manhattan, NY

When the stock markets are ripping, then so does my @Wise current account with the Stocks feature. Ofc in the months when markets go down I will lose money. Therefore money is at risk with Stocks.

Quarterly earnings: customer edition Our financial year ended with March and we reported metrics for the final quarter. But how does it look from the customers' perspective? People and small businesses hold $40 billion on their Wise accounts and earned circa $528 million from their holdings in the last 12 months. What's the problem that we're fixing? Money sitting on your everyday spending account at a bank usually earns you nothing, yet your bank earns risk-free benchmark interest from the central bank or the government. From your money! Enter Wise Assets. An Interest feature to bypass the bank and you to get interest from government bonds and assets guaranteed by those. And the Stocks feature for those of us, who believe that stock markets are the best store of value on average over the long term and are willing to put their capital at risk.

I worked a shift at our customer branch on Oxford Street. It was a lot of fun. Why are we opening a branch when all traditional banks are trying to get rid of theirs? Why are we jailbreaking out of apps? People and small businesses are now holding $40 billion on their @Wise everyday spending accounts. It's growing fast, 37% last year. Mostly by our customers recommending to their friends. One of the things they mention is the support and experience they are getting compared to what they've learned to expect from their bank. We already serve 280,000 customer interactions on live phone and chat channels each month. Our people are instantly available 24/7. We do that in so many languages. Now we're taking this support to the next level. You enjoy a human experience more than a phone call? Come see our team in person! I don't exactly know how these branches are going to operate. We are doing a concept on Oxford street. It is an opposite experience to the last time you visited your bank branch. Cue the Jenki matcha. We may do a few more concepts and try out different things around the world, before we settle on permanent homes and physical spaces for our customers. It's coming.

Now that we're soon running out of 32-bit namespace for transfer IDs at @Wise, the engineers are annoyed with me choosing int over long when I wrote the first lines of code in 2010. But why don't they appreciate the $17 of savings in storage cost over years!? 🤷

Working our Oxford St branch in London today