a Mastercard Debit card alongside the Visa Debit (formerly Visa Electron) card that it had been offering in the past as the exclusive option. Also Alpha Bank offers Debit Mastercard and Debit Mastercard Contactless as one of three options for a debit card. It is not clear which debit card these two banks promote the most to customers that do not have a specific preference. Hong Kong As of January 2021, HSBC, Citibank, WeLab Bank Livi Bank & Mox Bank offer a contactless Debit Mastercard to their clients in virtual and/or physical plastic card. Netherlands bunq bank issues a Debit Mastercard to its premium customers. Additionally, ICS issues MasterCard and VISA debit cards including 180-day insurance, which is normally not available on debit cards in the Netherlands. Getsby is the first company to only issue tokenizable Virtual Debit Mastercard Cards in the Netherlands. Philippines Major banks like BDO, Metrobank, Security Bank, RCBC, BPI and PNB issues Debit Mastercard. Debit Cards like Mastercard are also accepted in most Point of sales in the Philippines. It directly competes with Visa Debit which is mostly issued by state-owned banks and Bancnet the national interbank network Romania In Romania the Debit Mastercard is one of the two popular options of debit cards - the other one being Visa Debit. United Kingdom In the United Kingdom, the Debit Mastercard operates alongside Mastercard's established Maestro debit card scheme, which previously were the only debit cards provided by Mastercard. However, almost all providers have switched to issuing Debit Mastercard instead, as the previous Maestro debit cards are not accepted as widely worldwide, unlike the Debit Mastercard which is accepted worldwide wherever Mastercard is accepted. Although, currently, the Maestro scheme still remains in place. The main issuers of Debit Mastercard are Clydesdale Bank (incorporating Yorkshire Bank), Danske Bank, Virgin Money, Metro Bank, Monzo Bank, Santander UK, Starling Bank, and Thinkmoney. First Direct began switching existing customers to Debit Mastercard from Visa in 2021. NatWest Group began switching existing customers to and providing new customers with a Debit Mastercard in 2022. The Debit Mastercard is a competitor to the Visa Debit cards provided by Visa Inc. United States In the United States, unlike Australia and the United Kingdom, three levels of Debit Mastercard are available: Standard, Enhanced, and World. In 2012, there were four levels of Debit Mastercard available: Standard, Gold, Platinum and World. See also E-commerce credit card