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.
Personal finance 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 Is my money safe with Plum app? 🔐 When it comes to money, safety is our top priority (followed by helping you get more of it!). Over 1 million of you already trust Plum, so we look at why we’re a market-leader in security.
Personal finance 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 Plum feature: 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 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.
Personal finance 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!
Budgeting 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.
Investing 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.
Investing 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!
Personal finance 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!
Budgeting 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?
Investing What is a Bond in investing? 🤝 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.
Investing What is a share in investing? 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.
Personal finance How to Be Better With Money 💷 Plum’s one-stop guide to mastering money! We talk you through everything, from the basics of how to budget and get out of debt, right through to creating your own personal investment strategy.
Making Plum New Plum Feature: Round Ups 🆙 Most of you are already loving our auto-stashing algorithm, but we also wanted to offer you a way to replicate the spirit of the childhood piggy bank… minus all the grubby spare-change!