Rogers Red World Mastercard

Rogers BankMastercard

Rogers Bank · Mastercard

3.1out of 5, our rating

Free, paying 2% if you hold a Rogers, Fido, Shaw or Comwave service and 1% if you do not. Rogers introduced caps in August 2026 and has not published the numbers.

Annual feeNone
Purchase APR21.99%
Minimum income$50,000

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

What we like, and what we don’t

Worth having

  • 2% on everything for Rogers, Fido, Shaw and Comwave customers, with no annual fee
  • 2% back on US dollar purchases regardless of whether you hold a service
  • Redeeming against a Rogers or Fido bill applies a 1.5 times multiplier, so 2% becomes 3% of value
  • No fee for additional cards
  • A flat rate with no categories to track

Watch out for

  • The 2% rate depends on holding an eligible telecom service. Drop it and the card pays 1%
  • Rogers confirms that annual caps on cash back began on 4 August 2026 but does not publish the amounts
  • The best redemption value requires spending your rewards on a Rogers bill
  • Interest rates are published as ranges, so the advertised rate is not what everyone gets
  • $50,000 personal or $80,000 household income required
  • No travel insurance

What this card earns

Everything else
1%
Bonus categories at once
1 you choose which

The earning fine print

The advertised rate is conditional on being a telecom customer, which is the entire point of the co-brand. WITH an eligible Rogers, Fido, Shaw or Comwave service: 2% cash back on all eligible purchases and 2% on US-dollar purchases. WITHOUT an eligible service: 1% on all eligible purchases (2% is retained on US-dollar purchases only). The 1% base recorded above is the no-service reading, which is the conservative one. Cancel your Rogers service and your earn rate halves. Rogers Bank states that effective 4 August 2026 'annual limits will apply on the cash back rewards you can earn', varying by card type, but does not publish the limit amounts. Earn_cap_annual is therefore recorded as NOT PUBLISHED and this is a live, unresolved cap.

What the offer actually requires

No welcome bonus is published for this card.

Fees and interest rates

Annual fee
None
Additional card
Free
Foreign transaction fee
2.5%
Purchase APR
21.99%
Cash advance APR
22.99%
Balance transfer APR
22.99%

Who can get this card

Minimum personal income
$50,000
Minimum household income
$80,000

Insurance and benefits

Purchase protection
Included
Extended warranty
Included
Annual travel credit
$0

What the benefits really mean

Rogers Bank's Red lineup has four tiers. Rogers Red Mastercard, Rogers Red World Mastercard (this card), Rogers Red World Elite Mastercard, and the Rogers Red World Legend Mastercard launched in 2026. Only this tier's detail page rendered reliably at time of research; the base Red and World Legend pages returned redirect loops, so their figures are not recorded here and should be re-checked before publishing those tiers. For this card: $0 annual fee, $0 authorized users, 2.5% foreign currency conversion applied at Mastercard's rate. Embedded insurance is limited to Purchase Protection and Extended Warranty (underwritten by CUMIS General Insurance) with no published dollar limits; no travel insurance of any kind. Rogers Account Protection (disability, unemployment, hospitalization, critical illness, life, accidental death; monthly benefit the greater of $10 or 10% of balance to a $20,000 maximum, or a $20,000 lump sum) is an OPTIONAL PAID add-on underwritten by Canadian Premier Life, not an included benefit. Extras: 5 free Roam Like Home days per year with an eligible Rogers mobile plan, which Rogers values at up to $90; equal payment plans of 6 to 48 months. The headline 2% only applies while you hold an eligible Rogers, Fido, Shaw or Comwave service. Drop the service and it falls to 1%. Rogers Bank confirms that from 4 August 2026 annual caps apply to cash back earning, but does NOT publish the cap amounts. An uncapped-looking card that is now capped by an undisclosed number. Interest rates are published as ranges (21.99%-25.99% on purchases, 22.99%-27.99% on cash) effective August 2026; the rate you receive depends on Rogers Bank's assessment and the advertised low end is not guaranteed. The pre-August 2026 purchase range was 20.99%-25.99%. The 1.5x redemption multiplier only works when redeeming against a Rogers, Fido, Shaw or Comwave bill, with a $10 minimum. Redeeming any other way gets 1x. Rogers Account Protection is a paid optional insurance product, not an included card benefit; it is easy to mistake for embedded coverage. Rogers Bank publishes no dollar limits for its purchase protection or extended warranty. Rogers Bank's own site is unreliable to scrape; verify the other three Red tiers manually before listing them.

Our verdict

For a Rogers or Fido customer this is one of the best free cards in the country. 2% on everything with no fee is a rate that usually costs money, and redeeming against your own phone bill lifts the effective return to 3%. The 2% on US dollar purchases is a nice extra, though it does not cancel the 2.5% conversion fee.

Two things to watch. The rate is conditional on the service, so switching carriers halves your cash back overnight. And Rogers has confirmed that annual caps started on 4 August 2026 without publishing what those caps are, which means nobody can currently tell you what this card is worth at higher spending levels. We record the uncapped structure because that is what Rogers publishes, and we would not plan around it.

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Where this came from. Rogers Bank Rogers Red World Mastercard details page (annual fee, income test, interest rate ranges including the August 2026 change, 2.5% FX, earn rates with and without service, 1.5x redemption bonus, insurance, Roam Like Home). Verified open to applications 18 Aug 2026. Rogers Bank's compare-cards page and the base/World Legend tier pages returned redirect errors and could not be verified.. 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.