Halifax Reward account new card design

imroberts

opinions4u wrote: »

As long as I can use it whenever I need to, I don't give a to55 what it looks like!

I thought everyone chose their bank based on the appearance of the card :rotfl:

fleenio

Similar to the (old) money back account card but with the silver strip.

Inactive

opinions4u wrote: »

As long as I can use it whenever I need to, I don't give a to55 what it looks like!

Nor me, in honesty, I cannot understand this apparent obsession with card designs , it is a card, it works, end of.

The bloody thing is stuffed in a wallet/purse for most of it's life anyway.

maxsquared

Not that I care about the card design if I do I wouldn't go with Halifax, as they seem to have ugly cards in the industry, however, if it's pretty card is always a plus

Kavanne

maxsquared wrote: »

Not that I care about the card design if I do I wouldn't go with Halifax, as they seem to have ugly cards in the industry, however, if it's pretty card is always a plus

exactly!! glad my existing cards don't expire for a while

dougz_2

The new BoS card looks better than the Halifax in my opinion. While very similar in design and colour, they have added BANK OF SCOTLAND above the Reward, so avoiding that huge blank space top right. It also benefits from not saying Halifax

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dougz wrote: »

The new BoS card looks better than the Halifax in my opinion. While very similar in design and colour, they have added BANK OF SCOTLAND above the Reward, so avoiding that huge blank space top right. It also benefits from not saying Halifax

The way things are going, they will both have Bank of England on them, once we the tax payer have finished bailing them out, that is.;)

opinions4u

dougz wrote: »

The new BoS card looks better than the Halifax in my opinion. While very similar in design and colour, they have added BANK OF SCOTLAND above the Reward, so avoiding that huge blank space top right. It also benefits from not saying Halifax

Reading between the lines of the announcement yesterday, I see:

BANK OF SCOTLAND Corporate - basketcase
HBOS Treasury - screwed by wholesale funding costs
HALIFAX Retail - err profitable!

What is it about Scottish banking brands?

System

opinions4u wrote: »

Reading between the lines of the announcement yesterday, I see:

BANK OF SCOTLAND Corporate - basketcase
HBOS Treasury - screwed by wholesale funding costs
HALIFAX Retail - err profitable!

What is it about Scottish banking brands?

• Probably, not a good thing being the largest mortgage lender in a property slump. The Halifax was this.
• The corporate side quite clearly shouldn't have invested in the housing sector (builders etc) so heavily. The property slant was from the Halifax.
• There was also a marked change when Halifax took over the retail side (BoS) went very much downhill, and everything went towards sales, not customer service.
• Crosby/Hornby were both from Halifax

Bank of Scotland was much more like Lloyds & Barclays.
It would probably be in a similar position to them now, had HBOS never existed.
I suspect Halifax would now be like Northern Rock or A&L.

I think you may find that the Lloyds & Bank of Scotland brands remain, long term.

milfordmadness

opinions4u wrote: »

Reading between the lines of the announcement yesterday, I see:

BANK OF SCOTLAND Corporate - basketcase
HBOS Treasury - screwed by wholesale funding costs
HALIFAX Retail - err profitable!

What is it about Scottish banking brands?

BE VERY CAREFUL - YOU'RE BORDERING RACISM....

Scottish banks are fine, try looking at your own English economy before you srat on us! Shall I start with Northern then move on to Halifax?? BOS were fine til they got involved with that pile of crap from HX3 (Trinity Road for you that don't live round ere!)

TSB, BOS, RBS, CB are all big players so don't start.... the english caused this recession, they caused the last and they will damn sure cause the next IMHO