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Our new Welcome Pack and Card

Deliver bank card; melt faces

Cranking up the heat on our welcome pack

Pete Johnson

Pete Johnson

Up's Pause Fest 2019 Activation

Designing Super Powered Events

Events provide a challenge for a team as they offer a rare chance to create a fully immersive customer experience. We take a behind the scenes look at what went into designing the first year of events at Up.

Hannah Gibson

Hannah Gibson

Globe showing Up and TransferWise sending money around the globe

TransferWise integrates with Up

First of its kind collaboration in Asia-Pacific soon to offer Upsiders the best way to move money overseas.

Up

Up

Up at WWDC 2019

Up at WWDC 2019

WWDC 2019 is done and dusted. Our iOS wizard, Crafter spent a week in sunny California checking it out!

Marcus Crafter

Marcus Crafter

The future of banking is looking Up

The Future of Banking is Looking Up

We’re excited to announce that over 100,000 customers have joined Up since we launched just over 8 months ago in October 2018. This places Up in the company of the fastest growing digital banks in the world.

Anson Parker

Anson Parker

Up Apple Watch App

Up Apple Watch App

A tour of our new Up App for Apple Watch

Marcus Crafter

Marcus Crafter

Random fun emojis

Where Do Emoji Come From?

With our most recent release supporting a crop of exciting new emojis, we ask the question: where do emoji come from anyway?

Xavier Shay

Xavier Shay

Random fun emojis

Building Saver Icons

New in our most recent release is the ability to choose a custom emoji icon for your savers. Learn some of the technical challenges surmounted while building it.

Xavier Shay

Xavier Shay

Introducing the Up product roadmap

The Tree of Up

We're excited to introduce a new kind of product roadmap. We're calling it The Tree of Up – a technology tree-like view of our product plans for 2019.

Anson Parker

Anson Parker

The Up Card and Welcome Pack.

Designing a Super Powered Welcome Experience

For a branchless digital bank, the tangible moments you have with your customers are few and far between. We relished the opportunity to design both our debit card and its welcome pack from scratch.

Daniel Wearne

Daniel Wearne