💰Stackin' Squad What's inflation and is it always bad? 🤑 Inflation is something that relates to us all. Any store of money will be affected by inflation... so it's pretty important that we understand what inflation is and whether it's always a bad thing!
💰Stackin' Squad How to curb online shopping 🛍 Online shopping can sometimes go beyond necessity and develop into a compulsion that causes us to spend more than we can afford. Here are our tips for keeping your online spending under control.
💰Stackin' Squad How to Automate Your Savings 💸 If you’ve ever struggled to put money away for the future, you probs won’t need reminding that it’s hard! Automation can stop life getting in the way, so we explain what this means and how to do it.
🛠 Making Plum New Plum Feature Launched: True Balance 🤓 True Balance helps you better manage your money by calculating how much of your available balance is safe to spend... once any regular payments due before your next payday have also been accounted for.
💰Stackin' Squad Tips for choosing the right travel insurance policy 🧳 With so many policies and different types of cover to choose between... buying travel insurance can be a confusing business! But we’re here to help you find the best deal for your needs.
🛠 Making Plum New Plum Feature Launched: Diagnostics 👩⚕️ In the same way you might visit the doctor’s or take your car to the garage, Plum ‘Diagnostics’ gives your finances a fitness check too!
🛠 Making Plum New Plum Feature Launched: Cashback 💷 🔙 We’re always trying to increase the size of your stack, and today we’re introducing Plum Cashback. A system that rewards you whenever you shop with one of our partner merchants through the Plum app 📲
🛠 Making Plum Is My Money Safe With Plum App? 🔐 When it comes to money, safety is our top priority (closely followed by helping you get more of it!). With over 1 million of you trusting Plum with your savings, we take a look at the measures in place to ensure we’re always a market-leader in security.
💰Stackin' Squad The Basics of Personal Finance 🧮 The term personal finance is broad, covering almost anything related to your money! But it all forms part of a wider lifelong strategy aimed at providing for yourself and your loved ones.
🛠 Making Plum New Saving Rule: Pay Days 📆 Pay Days can be configured to deposit an additional lump sum to your Plum account when your salary first hits your bank… but before life has a chance to get in the way of your best intentions!
🛠 Making Plum Update for Messenger Users 📨 A new Facebook policy will prevent us from sending notifications via Messenger. To get the full Plum experience, we recommend you now switch to our app, which can deliver that in one slick package 📲
🛠 Making Plum Plum Payments Are Now Faster ⚡️ You told us loud-and-clear that you wanted to deposit quicker… and here at Plum we don’t like to disappoint, so we now support Faster Payments Service for manual deposits.
💰Stackin' Squad How to Do Valentine's Day on a Budget 💜 If you’re planning a romantic Valentine’s Day date or you’re looking for the perfect gift for your significant other, we’re here with the best selection of budget ideas this side of Cupid’s arrow 🏹
🛠 Making Plum New Plum Feature Launched: Privacy Mode 🙈 Mobile apps are great, but it can be risky to carry so much personal data in the palm of your hand. So we’ve introduced a Privacy Mode setting, which can hide your account balances and keep prying eyes at bay!
🚀 Goals How to Ask for A Pay Rise 🙋♀️ If you’re feeling energised with enthusiasm for the New Year, but also feeling underappreciated and/or underpaid at work, then it might be time to try to negotiate a salary increase with your boss.
🎓 Investment Academy How to Invest With Plum 🌱 There are many reasons why people don’t invest their savings, but for many it’s because they don’t understand the process. And we don’t think that’s fair! Here’s how you can get started with Plum.
🎓 Investment Academy Managing Investment Risk 📊 When investing, the disclaimer, “Capital at Risk”, is always given. There are very real risks though, so it’s important to be aware of potential pitfalls... before deciding where to stash our cash!
💰Stackin' Squad How to: Lower Your Bills 🔌 When it comes to switching suppliers (e.g. home utilities), millions of us in the UK are being put at an unfair disadvantage due to a ‘loyalty penalty’. And chances are, it’s costing you... right now!
🛠 Making Plum How to Use Plum ‘Round Ups’ 🆙 Do you remember saving those spare coppers in your piggy bank when you were a kid? Round Ups lets you replicate the spirit of penny-saving… minus all the grubby coins 💰
💰Stackin' Squad How to Have Fun With No Money 😬 Humans are wired to prioritise immediate gratification over long-term satisfaction. But next time that urge to splurge strikes, we want you to be armed with fun ideas that won't break the bank.
🎓 Investment Academy Investing 101: What is Diversification? Amongst the wisdom we treasure is the phrase “don’t put all your eggs in one basket”! We look at what it means to diversify your investments, and the strategies you can use to do this 🧺
🛠 Making Plum What is Automated Saving? ⚙️ We’re on a mission to make everyone (starting with our awesome Plumsters) financially better off. Automation can help ensure that you still tuck money away even when you're not thinking about it.
💰Stackin' Squad How to Become a Millionaire 🎩 When people hear the word millionaire, they often tend to picture an entrepreneur with a single idea or invention that makes them a fortune. But there is more than one way to make a million!
🎓 Investment Academy Investing 101: What's a Mutual Fund? Our investing series continues with this article on Mutual Funds. This example is brought to life with the aid of a case study from Blockbusters heyday, to provide a lesson in investment basics 📚
💰Stackin' Squad How Much Should I Save? 🏦 When the savings bug hits it can be a powerful force. But however hard we try, there's always some financial expert warning that it is not enough. Which begs the question... how much should we save?
