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Date:29 July 2010

METRO BANK JOINS LINK ATM NETWORK

29 July 2010: Metro Bank, Britain’s first new high street bank in over 150 years, has joined the LINK ATM network, giving its customers access to the entire UK cash machine network.

In addition, around 100 million UK-issued LINK-enabled cards, essentially all debit and ATM cards issued by significant UK banks and building societies, can be used in the Metro Bank cash machines installed in their new branches, the first of which opens in Holborn, London, today.

Edwin Schooling Latter, Managing Director, LINK Scheme comments: “I am delighted to welcome Metro Bank into LINK which opens up over 63,000 UK cash machines to their cardholders. No other scheme can match this breadth of access or convenience in the UK.”

Media Enquiries - UK

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About LINK

LINK is the UK's cash machine network. Virtually every cash machine in the UK (free-to-use and pay-to-use) is connected to LINK, and LINK provides the only route through which card issuers can offer their customers reliable nationwide access to cash. All the UK's significant debit and ATM card issuers are LINK members.

Cash machine operators who want to deploy ATMs in the UK must join LINK in order to be able to offer cash to all 100 million LINK-enabled cards in circulation.

The number of free-to-use ATMs in the UK is at an all-time high of 40,000.

Almost 97% of all ATM cash withdrawals by UK cardholders in the UK are made free-of-charge.
LINK, the UK's cash machine network, works in partnership with independent charity, Crimestoppers to offer rewards of up to £25,000 for information relating to cash machine crime. Anyone with details about those responsible for cash machine crime - such as card skimming or even physical attacks on the machine itself - can call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111, where they can leave their information completely anonymously.

www.link.co.uk