RBS to switch to Visa for Its Debit Cards

book12

I would say lack of communication about this issue. lol.

UncleSimit

book12 wrote: »

I would say lack of communication about this issue. lol.

I hope so, I'm looking forward to a full pledged Visa Card

stclair

Transactional Banking, UK Retail
1St Floor, House E
Gogarburn
PO Box 1000
Edinburgh
EN1 1HQ

Telephone: 0131 626 1913
www.rbs.co.uk

Dear XXX

Thank you for your letter of 5 May 2009 I recieved for attention, and for your interest in the banks move to Visa Debit.

I am pleased to confirm that The Royal Bank of Scotland Group will begin issuing Visa Debit card to all its customers during the second half of 2009.

Visa Debit offers almost three times the global acceptance of Maestro making 29 million point of sale outlets available to customers across the world, providing an overall improved service to our customers.

Existing customers with Maestro. Solo or Cirrus cards can continue to use there Cards as normal. Customers will recieve their new Visa Debit cards on request or replacement or as their current card expires. All changes will be communicated to customers shortly in the normal way. There will be no change to the customers PIN when they recieve their new card.

If I can be of any further assistance on this matter, please do not hesistate to contact me.

Yours sincerely



Steve Rob
Card Services Manager

never-in-doubt

stclair wrote: »

I am pleased to confirm that The Royal Bank of Scotland Group will begin issuing Visa Debit card to all its customers during the second half of 2009.

That quoted the RBS group, but Natwest have already declared that they are sticking with their baby (Maestro)....

remember Natwest have a lot to lose, they created Access - now its gone. They jointly formed Switch - now its gone. They jointly moved to Maestro and guess what, this is now going!

Poor poor Natwest! Dilemma dilemma (simple answer, shouldn't have joined RBS and competed against Barclaycard).....

spindo

never-in-doubt wrote: »

That quoted the RBS group, but Natwest have already declared that they are sticking with their baby (Maestro)....

NatWest are 'in' the RBS group.

Also they havent declared they are sticking with Maestro.

never-in-doubt

spindo wrote: »

NatWest are 'in' the RBS group.

Also they havent declared they are sticking with Maestro.

LOL, no !!!!!! sherlock Like I never knew that, that is why I said 'Natwest have declared they are sticking by their baby' (Maestro)..... Meaning the RBS Group excluding natwest are changing to Visa Debit.

To be fair things may have changed since I last took notice of this, I got info from loads of sites - first one on google is quoted as saying:

Royal Bank of Scotland have also announced that they will transition from Maestro to Visa Debit in 2009 but have no plans to change the Natwest Debit card from Maestro.

1000's of links, but the above was used from this one here: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Visa_Debit

savagej

It is every bank in the RBS Group that is moving over, not just RBS from what I can see. It even covers their US banking operations, dont know what they are issuing now but they are also moving to Visa Debit.

never-in-doubt

savagej wrote: »

It is every bank in the RBS Group that is moving over, not just RBS from what I can see. It even covers their US banking operations, dont know what they are issuing now but they are also moving to Visa Debit.

cheers - so it that 100% confirmed now then, that even Natwest will move to Visa Debit? I heard that YB/CB are going to Mastercard Debit (!!!!!!!) - maybe they want to alienate themselves from reality lol :rotfl:

stclair

never-in-doubt wrote: »

cheers - so it that 100% confirmed now then, that even Natwest will move to Visa Debit? I heard that YB/CB are going to Mastercard Debit (!!!!!!!) - maybe they want to alienate themselves from reality lol :rotfl:

If you ring 0131 626 1913 they will confirm it all for you.

They have stated it wont begin happening now until september 2009 as theres been a slight delay in the roll out of the visa debit cards.

savagej

Do you know if this applies to Natwest First Reserve SOLO cards, are they going to keep issuing a debit card on it in the form of the new Visa card or will it revert to a simple ATM card?