ATM Card Networks
In some banking networks, the two functions of ATM cards and debit cards are combined into a single card called simply as a debit card or also commonly called as bank card. These are able to perform banking tasks at ATMs and also make point-of-sale transactions, with both features using a PIN.
Canada's Interac and Europe's Maestro are examples of networks that link bank accounts with point-of-sale equipment.
Some debit card networks also started their lives as ATM card networks before evolving into full fledged debit card networks, example of these networks are: Development Bank of Singapore (DBS)'s Network for Electronic Transfers (NETS) and Bank Central Asia (BCA)'s Debit BCA, both of them were later on adopted by other banks (with Prima Debit being the Prima interbank network version of Debit BCA).
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