Stella McCartney designs new Current Account Card for Coutts

Second British designer to team up with Coutts to redesign its cards

Coutts & Co, the UK’s leading private bank, today announced the launch of the new current account card designed by Stella McCartney. Available for new and existing clients, the card sits beside the Coutts World super premium card, designed in 2004 by another imaginative British creative talent, Ozwald Boateng.

Almost every client has an account card and Coutts has brought a new dimension to the most important part of the current account. With cards being, in essence, a contemporary take on cash, Stella McCartney’s design combines the intricacies found on banknotes and on the Coutts cheque book with aspects of the British countryside. Echoing the watermark on a banknote, a translucent Coutts signature has been created for the card that can be seen when held up to the light. Sarah Deaves, Chief Executive of Coutts & Co, commented: “We are very excited to be working with Stella McCartney who has brought imagination and creativity to a key component of our current account.The new card has been designed to complement our “famous” Coutts’ cheque book - we hope that our clients will enjoy using it!”

Stella McCartney added: “It was refreshing to be asked by Coutts to design something I have never done before. It is a design area that has been overlooked in the past and its about time you get to spend your hard earned money with an account card that looks good!”

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Notes to Editors

The Account Card enables clients to:

withdraw cash at ATM’s in the UK and overseas and at Coutts bank counters;
undertake telephone, internet and point of sale transactions in the UK and overseas;
guarantee cheques up to Ł250; and
order currency using the home delivery service.

For further information please contact:

Nick Gill, Coutts & Co, 0207 7957 2427, 07970 001156 or email nick.gill@coutts.com

About Coutts

Coutts is the international private banking arm of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is one of the world's largest banking groups.
Coutts manages the wealth of 96,000 high net worth clients worldwide through a network of 40 offices globally.
The first Coutts regional office to be opened was Eton in 1961. Today, Coutts has regional offices in Bath, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Eton, Guildford, Hampshire, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford and Tunbridge Wells
Coutts offers clients a range of products and services covering sophisticated investment products together with expertise in trust and fiduciary services and UK tax and banking services.
Coutts, for three years running (2003-2005) was awarded ‘Best Use of Long-Only Multi-Manager Structures’ at the Private Asset Management Awards.
This year Coutts and Co was named as the UK’s Best Private Bank by Euromoney magazine.
Coutts & Co is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Coutts & Co Registered in England No 36695Registered Office 440 Strand London WC2R 0QS
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