Santander MasterCard Debit Card

wizzywig27

New card ordered Thursday, hasn’t arrived yet but can see in the app it’s a Visa card 

stclair

It’s must be coming soon given they have updated there app for it and website has appears to have removed all reference to visa debit card (from what I can see) and now only mention debit card. 

wizzywig27 said:

New card ordered Thursday, hasn’t arrived yet but can see in the app it’s a Visa card 

born_again

wizzywig27 said:

New card ordered Thursday, hasn’t arrived yet but can see in the app it’s a Visa card 

Mrs got a replacement last week. Its Visa with Exp 01/21.

bsms1147

SnowTiger said:

SnowTiger wrote: »

My Santander debt card expires in September 2019, so I guess I'll receive a Mastercard replacement during the next few weeks.

New card arrived this morning. It's Visa.

Valid from: 08/19
Expires end: 04/21

Valid for 21 months.

My previous Santander card was valid for 4 years.

My guess is that Santander's move to Mastercard has been delayed; and their current agreement with Visa ends after April 2021, therefore they can't issue cards that are valid beyond that date.

My new Visa (Black Select card) is July 2021, so 20 months; thought it was very short, but suggests nothing ends in April.

SnowTiger

bsms1147 said:

SnowTiger said:

SnowTiger wrote: »

My Santander debt card expires in September 2019, so I guess I'll receive a Mastercard replacement during the next few weeks.

New card arrived this morning. It's Visa.

Valid from: 08/19
Expires end: 04/21

Valid for 21 months.

My previous Santander card was valid for 4 years.

My guess is that Santander's move to Mastercard has been delayed; and their current agreement with Visa ends after April 2021, therefore they can't issue cards that are valid beyond that date.

My new Visa (Black Select card) is July 2021, so 20 months; thought it was very short, but suggests nothing ends in April.

https://relay.cajs.co.uk/7cf85a48/Santander_Debit_Mastercard.pdf: 'The new Santander Mastercard Debit cards will be launched in Q2 2019.'

The change date has certainly slip.

Presumably the plan is to phase in the switch from Visa to Mastercard over a period of time.

WillPS

TSB seem to have binned off any ambitions of moving to Mastercard as well.

I wonder what goes on to make this quite so complicated. Plenty of banks moved between Switch/Maestro/Solo and Delta/Visa/Electron in the 90s and 00s. Have the banks subsequently changed their systems to work in such a way that a further change became harder? Seems foolish if so.

At the current rate I wonder whether Nationwide will be first out of the gates with rebadged cards.

born_again

SnowTiger said:

https://relay.cajs.co.uk/7cf85a48/Santander_Debit_Mastercard.pdf: 'The new Santander Mastercard Debit cards will be launched in Q2 2019.'

The change date has certainly slip.

Presumably the plan is to phase in the switch from Visa to Mastercard over a period of time.

A lot of banks changing over have slipped.
A swap of card supplier is a major change. Involving a lot of training for staff, changes to systems and access to new systems for staff. Which given all the other regulatory changes has seen the change pushed back.
Also a big job for the card suppliers. You can't simply send new cards to all your customers. It's usually rolled out over 18 months. 
Even when Mastercard are paying Millions to the banks to change over.

notveryeducated

Here's a pic of the new MasterCard debit card (not mine so excuse it not being 100% clear) 
http://prntscr.com/s5l5q8

stclair

WillPS said:

TSB seem to have binned off any ambitions of moving to Mastercard as well.

I wonder what goes on to make this quite so complicated. Plenty of banks moved between Switch/Maestro/Solo and Delta/Visa/Electron in the 90s and 00s. Have the banks subsequently changed their systems to work in such a way that a further change became harder? Seems foolish if so.

At the current rate I wonder whether Nationwide will be first out of the gates with rebadged cards.

Nationwide have said they will issue debit MasterCards to business customers when they launch their business accounts. 

EarthBoy

stclair said:

WillPS said:

TSB seem to have binned off any ambitions of moving to Mastercard as well.

I wonder what goes on to make this quite so complicated. Plenty of banks moved between Switch/Maestro/Solo and Delta/Visa/Electron in the 90s and 00s. Have the banks subsequently changed their systems to work in such a way that a further change became harder? Seems foolish if so.

At the current rate I wonder whether Nationwide will be first out of the gates with rebadged cards.

Nationwide have said they will issue debit MasterCards to business customers when they launch their business accounts. 

Nationwide have abandoned their plans to launch business accounts.

https://www.standard.co.uk/business/nationwide-scraps-plan-for-business-banking-amid-covid-turmoil-a4406331.html