Science Card

Welcome to the UK’s first e-money current account dedicated to powering the fight against cancer, climate change and pollution.

Support scientific research into climate change, healthcare and computational power through your everyday spending.

With our fully-featured personal accounts, and a Mastercard® debit card, you can make a genuine impact just by doing what you already do every day - managing and spending your money.

Here’s how it works.

Make payments and manage your money with a free-to-open Science Card account.

• Send and receive money within seconds.
• Intelligent vaults to organise your finances.
• See all your account and vault balances at a glance, and get instant notifications every time you spend.


Spend with a debit card that supports science.

• Use your card everywhere Mastercard is accepted. In stores, online, on your phone.
• Virtual cards keep your online spending safe, and you can block your cards in the app.
• Spend abroad with no hidden charges - we don’t add anything to Mastercard’s exchange rate.


Accelerate science as you spend.

• Explore research projects in climate change, healthcare and computing.
• Contribute to the projects that mean the most to you, directly or by rounding up your payments whenever you spend.
• Follow the progress of your research projects as they receive their funding.



Science Card is a UK-registered trademark of Science Card Limited, a company registered in England with company number 13559517 and ICO registration ZB428134.

Science Card are a co-brand of Payload Ltd, who act as a Programme Manager under Transact Payments Limited (TPL), a company which is incorporated and registered in Gibraltar with company number 108217 and registered office is at 6.20 World Trade Center, 6 Bayside Road, Gibraltar, GX11 1AA. Transact Payments Limited is a licensed electronic money institution authorised and regulated by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission to issue electronic money and provide payment services. Your account and related payment services are provided by Transact Payments Limited. Whilst Electronic Money products are not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, your funds will be held in one or more segregated accounts and safeguarded in line with Part 4 of the Financial Services (Electronic Money) Regulations 2020.

Science Card's debit cards are issued by Transact Payments Limited pursuant to licence by Mastercard International Incorporated.

Mastercard and the circles design are registered trademarks of Mastercard International Incorporated.