🛠 Making Plum Is My Money Safe With Plum? 🔐 When it comes to money, safety is our top priority. With +750,000 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 a broad one, covering almost anything relating to your money! But each aspect forms part of a wider lifelong strategy aimed at providing for yourself and your loved ones.
🛠 Making Plum New Saving Rule: Pay Days 📆 We believe that automating deposits helps you save more, because you don’t need to think about the process. Pay Days lets you tuck more aside when you’re feeling flush… but before life gets in the way!
🛠 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! Manual deposits will now be quick as a flash ⚡️
💰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? ⚙️ Plum exists because we’re on a mission to make everyone financially better off. Automation ensures savings still happen without you needing to think about it, to help you save... MORE!
💰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?
🛠 Making Plum Chatting Bots: The Future of AI 🤖 With technology increasingly replacing human interactions, we look at the trend in conversational AI. Could a conversation with a chatbot become as valuable as a website hit or app download?
🎓 Investment Academy Investing 101: What is a Bond? 🤝 In this simple guide to investments terminology. This time out we look at ‘bonds’, to see how these differ from ‘shares’, and where they fit into the range of investment funds offered by Plum.
💰Stackin' Squad Things Were Cheaper in My Day 🤑 Following news that UK inflation has now fallen to 1.7%, the lowest rate since December 2016, we take a look at what inflation is, why this matters, and most crucially… what it means for you!
🎓 Investment Academy Investment Fund Performance 📊 The world of investing can be a confusing place, but at Plum we're on a mission to change that! In this article we look at how the various investment funds we offer have performed over the last five years.
🛠 Making Plum Plum 101: Your Questions Answered❓ Plum is built for you! And we love hearing your questions 💜 Things move so fast around here that sometimes we forget we need to refresh on Plum basics... so here are your questions answered!
🎓 Investment Academy Investing 101: What Is a Share? 🤷♂️ We lift the lid on the secretive world of investing. You can find out what terms like stocks and shares actually mean and learn the mechanics of how they are bought and sold.
💰Stackin' Squad How to Get Out of Your Overdraft 📈 The habitual reliance on an overdraft is the first thing preventing many people from implementing a more holistic financial strategy—so we wanted to design a feature that can help with this!
