Postbank is extending its credit card offering with the launch of the Postbank VISA photo card. The special feature of this credit card is that it can be personalized  – using any photograph. A snap from the last holiday, a family photograph or a picture of a favorite pet make the Postbank VISA photo card a very personal way to pay.

Postbank, who is providing the service together with VISA, is the first bank to offer such a product in Germany. The card can be used at more than 21 million outlets across the world. It incorporates Postbank’s wide-ranging credit card services, including document depositing, an interpreting service and a medical help line. Customers can use the online credit card service to view their sales statements at any time. If desired, the partial payment function can be used to tailor monthly repayments to suit individual customers’ circumstances.

Customers can either use one of their own photographs or an image from Postbank’s picture gallery to personalize the card. The selection of photographs, and the processing and creation of the card is performed online at  www.postbank.de/motivkarte . The Postbank VISA photo card can only be obtained via the Internet. The card costs EUR 25 per year.

Postbank is one of the largest providers of credit cards on the German market. In the first half of 2005, the number of VISA cards issued by the Bonn-based bank increased to more than 540,000.