Your Maybank Grab Card Retires on 7 September. Two Things Expire With It.

Maybank has confirmed it: the Maybank Grab Mastercard stops working on 7 September 2026. A replacement card ships between 12 September and October, free of charge, to your registered mailing address.

Here’s the detail that matters: the 16-digit card number stays the same, but the CVV and expiry date change. That one sentence is why some holders will glide through this transition and others will spend October wondering why their streaming, e-wallet reloads and insurance auto-debit all bounced.

And there’s no branch collection for this one — if your mailing address in Maybank2u is your old apartment, your new card is going to your old apartment. Let’s do this properly.

What’s confirmed, in one minute

Current card: stops 7 September. Replacement: mailed 12 September through October, free. Same card number, new CVV and expiry. No annual fee, with the RM25 government service tax applying as usual. In-person foreign transaction fees stay waived in Singapore, Thailand, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia.

Expiry #1: your GrabCoins are on a countdown

GrabCoins expire six months from the date you earned them — a rolling expiry, not a single cliff date. That means coins from your March food deliveries die in September whether or not the card transition goes smoothly. Open the Grab app, check your GrabCoins balance and expiry schedule, and spend the older batches now — on rides, food or vouchers — rather than discovering in October that a few hundred coins quietly evaporated.

Expiry #2: your subscriptions will break quietly

Because the CVV and expiry change, every recurring payment saved against this card — streaming, e-wallet reloads, insurance premiums, gym, cloud storage — will start failing once the new card activates. Most merchants retry once or twice, then suspend. The fix is boring and effective: list every subscription charged to the card (your last three statements will surface them all), and update the details the day your new card arrives. Pay special attention to insurance auto-debits; a lapsed premium is a much bigger problem than a paused playlist.

The earn structure most holders never optimised

Worth knowing whether you keep or replace this card: the headline 8% cashback on e-hailing, online groceries, dining, food delivery and online entertainment only applies if you spend at least RM1,500 a month on the card — and it’s capped at RM18 per category per month, roughly RM54 in realistic total. That cap means the 8% mathematically runs out at RM225 of spend per category; everything above earns nothing extra. Below the RM1,500 threshold, you earn a flat 0.2% — and other retail spend earns 0.2% uncapped regardless.

If your actual pattern is RM800 a month spread thinly, a flat-rate cashback card almost certainly beats this one. If you reliably clear RM1,500 with heavy Grab usage, the replacement keeps earning its keep. The transition is a natural moment to check which holder you are.

Perks worth remembering before you cancel anything

The waived in-person FX fee in five of Malaysians’ favourite travel destinations is genuinely uncommon at this fee level. If you have a Singapore or Bangkok trip planned for year-end, that perk alone may justify keeping the replacement active — most cards quietly charge around 1% on foreign transactions.