National Bank Platinum Business Mastercard

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National Bank · Mastercard

2.7out of 5, our rating

Business card

$125 for a flat 1.5 points a dollar with no caps. National Bank does not publish what a point is worth, and the welcome offer on its page expired in September 2025.

Annual fee$125
Purchase APR20.99%
Minimum incomeNot published

Rates and features verified 2026-08-18Full terms and conditionsHow we research cards

What we like, and what we don’t

Worth having

  • A flat 1.5 points a dollar on everything with no purchase limit
  • No bonus categories to track and no caps to run out of
  • Rental car collision damage waiver included
  • À la carte Rewards can be redeemed against travel booked anywhere

Watch out for

  • National Bank publishes no cents per point value for this card, so the earn cannot be priced
  • The welcome offer displayed on the product page expired on 16 September 2025 and is still shown
  • No travel emergency medical insurance on a card branded Platinum
  • Employee cards cost $50 each with none included
  • National Bank publishes no foreign currency conversion fee for this card

What this card earns

Everything else
1.5x
Bonus categories at once
1 you choose which
What we value a point at
Not published by the issuer

The earning fine print

Flat '1.5 points per dollar spent, with no purchase limit'. No bonus categories and no caps. Points are redeemed through National Bank's À la carte Rewards programme. National Bank publishes no fixed cents-per-point redemption value, so point_value_cents is null.

What the offer actually requires

National Bank's product page displays a promotion of up to 60,000 points plus first-year annual fees reimbursed, but states it runs 'through September 16, 2025'. An end date almost a year in the past as at 18 August 2026. The offer is therefore recorded as null rather than live. Do not publish this bonus without confirming a current offer directly with National Bank.

Fees and interest rates

Annual fee
$125
Employee card
$50
Employee cards included
None
Foreign transaction fee
Not published by the issuer
Purchase APR
20.99%
Cash advance APR
22.99%
Balance transfer APR
22.99%

Who can get this card

Personal guarantee required
No you are personally liable for the balance

Insurance and benefits

Flight delay
$500
Baggage delay
$1,000
Rental car damage waiver
Included
Purchase protection
Included
Extended warranty
Included

What the benefits really mean

Flight delay protection up to $500 after a 4-hour delay. Lost or stolen baggage up to $1,000. Vehicle rental collision coverage up to 48 days. Purchase protection for 180 days against theft and damage. Double the 90 days most Canadian cards offer. Extended warranty up to 2 additional years, also better than the usual 1 year. Fraud protection up to $10,000. Minimum credit limit $1,000. NO travel emergency medical insurance is published. STALE OFFER ON THE ISSUER'S OWN PAGE: National Bank still displays a 60,000-point welcome promotion with an end date of 16 September 2025. Publishing it would show an expired offer as live. No travel emergency medical insurance on a $125 business card branded Platinum. Purchase protection at 180 days and extended warranty at 2 years are genuinely better than the Canadian norm and are the strongest reason to consider this card. National Bank publishes no foreign currency conversion fee and no personal guarantee statement. No published cents-per-point value for À la carte Rewards, so the 1.5x earn rate cannot be converted to a return without an editorial assumption.

Our verdict

A flat 1.5 points a dollar with no caps is a clean structure, and on National Bank's other cards À la carte points are worth a cent, which would make this 1.5% on everything for $125. That would be respectable. The problem is that National Bank does not publish the redemption value for this card, so we will not print a percentage we cannot stand behind.

The stale welcome offer is the other issue and it is a bad look. The product page is still advertising 60,000 points with an end date of September 2025, nearly a year gone. A business applying on the strength of that offer will not receive it. For $125 with no travel medical and no published point value, Scotiabank's free business card at an uncapped 1% is the safer buy.

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Where this came from. nbc.ca/business/credit-cards.html (lineup, $125 fee, 20.99%/22.99%, 1.5 points per $1); nbc.ca/en/business/credit-cards/platinum-mastercard.html (additional card fee, insurance, credit limit, stale promotion). Verified 18 Aug 2026.. We take every figure from the issuer’s own pages, never from another comparison site, and we leave a field blank rather than guess at it.