Personalise Your Plastic With Abbey 01/02/2005

Abbey has become the first major bank to introduce a facility to personalise credit and debit cards by allowing customers to put pictures of family and friends on the card.

For a £5 charge, customers can use the Photocard service. This will enable people to customise their cards with a photograph of their family or friends, a pet, holiday location or an image from Abbey's online gallery. Copyright restrictions mean that the images must be personal and not of favourite celebrities, for example.

Michael Johnson, Abbey's Director of Cash, said: "We know that people like to be given choices in how they manage their money and we hope the option of personalising their cards and statements makes them feel that their bank treats them like an individual, not a number."