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Debut partners with Mastercard

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May 2, 2024

We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Mastercard™ enabling us to offer users a seamless, safe and secure payment experience at millions of businesses, restaurants, retailers and online services in New Zealand and around the world.

Debut is building next-generation financial products with active consultation and feedback from our customer community. Together, with our community, Debut is reimagining traditional banking, creating something entirely new from the ground up. Partnering with Mastercard allows us to offer our customers peace of mind that we adhere to the highest standards of security and safety.

“Partnering with Mastercard has been instrumental in realising our vision of reimagining banking. Their expertise in supporting disruptors and enabling innovative payment solutions has been invaluable. We’re excited to offer customers the peace of mind that comes with Mastercard’s world-class security and compatibility.” – Sheenu Chawla, Co-Founder, Debut

Mastercard is also helping us to bring cutting-edge technologies to Debut, including virtual payment cards and mobile payments.

“Mastercard is thrilled to see Debut launch in market, increasing the great digital propositions and payment options available to Kiwi consumers. The partnership underscores Mastercard’s dedication to supporting innovation in Aotearoa.” – Ruth Riviere, Country Manager, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands, Mastercard

We can’t wait to start getting Debut into the hands of our community members and the Kiwi public. You can now download Debut for iPhone or Android and sign up in the app. Try it for yourself.

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Please note, Debut is not a registered bank under the Banking (Prudential Supervision) Act. This is about our future intentions. Investments with us are not supervised currently by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

Derrick Olivier is Head of Community and Growth at Debut
Debut is the best way to save, track, budget and understand your money.
We’re doing something that’s never been done in New Zealand. We’re building a bank carefully, thoughtfully and with feedback from our customers. This is only the beginning. Money stored with Debut is held in a secure trust in a registered AA- rated NZ-based bank.