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Hi-Fi

Hi—Fi: The Financially Sound System

Hi—Fi: Your Financially Sound System is here, but what is it and how does it work? Hear from the mind behind the machine on why Hi—Fi is the future of money management.

Anson Parker

Anson Parker

Matthew the ethical engineer

The Ethical Engineer

Meet a tech. engineer who’s matching the Up API, with data on ethical clothing. A match made in fashion heaven.

Matthew Grey

Matthew Grey

Stop the trolls

Stopping Payment Abuse: How Up is Designing for Safety

In July 2020, we got a message from a customer saying their ex-partner was sending abusive chat messages through Up. By August, we’d built new code to find payment abuse, and designed a new approach to stopping abuse on Up.

Nektarea Cameron-Smith

Nektarea Cameron-Smith

The design journey of the Up app

The Evolutionary Design of Up

A deep-dive on the design journey of the Up app. A collaboration between product, design, engineering and our growing base of Upsiders.

Daniel Wearne

Daniel Wearne

Up API

Announcing the Up API

Let's Hack On Banking Together! Today we're thrilled to announce the beta release of the Up API.

Anson Parker

Anson Parker

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

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

Upsiders celebrating at the Melbourne Up launch event.

Top 10 highlights from 2018

Happy New Year! While 2019 has just begun and there are so many awesome things planned for Up this year, I just thought it’d be cool to look back at a few highlights from 2018.

Dom Pym

Dom Pym