New RBS Debit Card Design

danedin

RG2015 said:

Lightning360 said:

danedin said:

I received a new debit Mastercard and it has the red wall + sea design. Everyone else I know has been sent the beach hut portrait style card which appears on the RBS website. Does anyone know why there are different designs? I know there are different designs for Premier customers and business but neither of those apply to me.

Can you possibly take a picture of it? It may help identify it better.

Sounds like the one on the post 5 posts back.

Yes the one already posted here is the one I received. The beach hut design (taken from the RBS website) attached.

jackjones01

RIP to the dreaded beach hut 👍

WillPS

Preferred the beach hut tbh. Does look nicer than Natwest's version tho. 

gsmh

I'm so pleased I have the Drummonds and Child & Co debit cards!

[Deleted User]

Will they actually issue this? I doubt it. At least for now. 

WillPS

[Deleted User] said:

Will they actually issue this? I doubt it. At least for now. 

How come? They seem to be bringing the entire brand in-line with Natwest, makes some sense for the debit cards to be included in that.

Hopefully Child's and Drummond's continue to have their own.

jackjones01

It looks like the credit cards have changed too. 

jackjones01

[Deleted User] said:

Will they actually issue this? I doubt it. At least for now. 

They are using the design on the website: 

https://www.rbs.co.uk/current_accounts.html

Lions_89

I thought it was a NatWest card. Can’t be long left for RBS as a brand.

gsmh

Lions_89 said:

I thought it was a NatWest card. Can’t be long left for RBS as a brand.

The Royal Bank of Scotland will stay around as a brand, but not RBS. They often refer to themselves as 'The Royal Bank' rather than the rather tarnished RBS. They issue banknotes in Scotland and the Scottish association is important in the 'home' country. Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks had almost exactly the same website with only the words Clydesdale and Yorkshire replacing each other, a different colour scheme and a couple of pages where the focus was on Scotland or England, depending on the brand. One was cbonline.co.uk and the other ybonline.co.uk - those sites are actually still active. The core infrastructure can be the same, but with different branding. Lloyds has kept the Bank of Scotland brand even though the online banking also shows Halifax account details and vice versa. The complication would be to run two completely different infrastructures. Not so long ago I wasn't able to service my RBS account in a NatWest branch, in recent years I can. Recently I made a complaint to RBS and it was dealt with, and I was compensated by, NatWest.

Companies often find it useful to retain brands - look at how many brands on the high street are owned by just a few huge companies, yet they've kept the brand names. It can make commercial sense.