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It was established as a joint venture incorporated as The Joint Credit Card Company Limited with Lloyds, Midland and National Westminster banks each owning 30% and Williams & Glyn's owning 10%. [4] The Access name was registered as a trademark on 26 November 1971 [ 5 ] and the product was launched on 23 October 1972. [ 6 ]
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In 1972, Lloyds Bank was a founding member of the Joint Credit Card Company (with National Westminster Bank, Midland Bank and the National and Commercial Banking Group) which launched the Access credit card (now MasterCard). That same year it introduced Cashpoint, the first online cash machine to use plastic cards with a magnetic stripe. [16]
The first bank cards were automated teller machine (ATM) cards issued by Barclays in London in 1967, [5] and by Chemical Bank in Long Island, New York, in 1969. [6] In 1972, Lloyds Bank issued the first bank card to feature an information-encoding magnetic strip, using a personal identification number (PIN) for security. [7]
The first ATM system was that of Barclays in London, in 1967; it accepted cheques with machine-readable encoding, rather than cards, and matched the PIN to the cheque. [5] [6] [7] 1972, Lloyds Bank issued the first bank card to feature an information-encoding magnetic strip, using a PIN for security. [8]
Banking customers who have been issued a CAP reader by their bank can insert their Chip and PIN card into the CAP reader in order to participate in one of several supported authentication protocols. CAP is a form of two-factor authentication as both a smartcard and a valid PIN must be present for a transaction to succeed.
The remainder of the Lloyds TSB business would be rebranded as Lloyds Bank. [61] Lloyds Banking Group reached a Heads of Terms agreement in July 2012 to sell the Verde branches to The Co-operative Bank for £750 million. [62] [63] The final transfer of TSB Bank plc to the new owner was due to be completed by late 2013.