# CAF Bank launches MasterCard debit card for charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/04/14/caf-bank-launches-mastercard-debit-card-charities/
- Published: 2011-04-14T12:01:15+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Charities with CAF Cash accounts can now pay for goods and services using CAF 
Bank’ s new MasterCard® debit card for charities. The card will enable cardholders
to pay for goods and services from their CAF Cash Account in person, over the telephone,
and online, in the UK and overseas. Cash can be drawn at ATMs bearing the MasterCard
acceptance mark.**

Launched by CAF Bank, the not-for-profit bank owned by the Charities Aid Foundation(
CAF), the card is free for all CAF Cash Account holders and all standard transactions
are free. The debit card is linked to the CAF Cash current account. Existing CAF
Cash customers can apply for the debit card at any point, and it is available to
new customers.

Peter Mitchell, CAF Bank Chief Executive, said that the bank had introduced the 
card after customers had said that they wanted greater flexibility in their banking.“
Our debit card”, he said, “will help provide this and allow them easier access to
their money and an even more complete banking service from a charity banking specialist.
The card will also help charities to overcome the imposed changes that the anticipated
closure of the cheque clearing system will bring in 2018.”

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