Barclaycard

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Barclaycard (Template:IPAc-en; stylised as barclaycard) is a brand for credit cards of Barclays PLC. It is considered as the United Kingdom's first and now biggest credit card provider with 5 million accounts.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

History

Barclays launched Barclaycard on 29 June 1966, initially as a charge card,<ref name="accesshistory6672">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> but following Bank of England agreement to the offering of revolving credit, it became the first credit card in the United Kingdom on 8 November 1967.<ref name="accesshistory6672"/> It enjoyed a monopoly of the credit card market in the United Kingdom until the introduction of the Access Card in October 1972.<ref name="accesshistory6672"/>

Barclays was not the first issuer of a credit card in the United Kingdom though; Diners Club and American Express launched their charge cards in 1962 and 1963 respectively.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="accesshistory6672"/> Barclaycard was originally a BankAmericard licensee, and became part of the Visa network on its formation in September 1976.<ref name="accesshistory6672"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2021, Barclaycard cut credit limits for over 100,000 customers, including customers who had never missed a payment. In some cases limits were cut by over 95%, resulting in "completely useless" credit limits.<ref name=Times>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=CityAm>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Guardian useless">Template:Cite news</ref>

Products

In the United Kingdom, barclaycard offers a range of credit cards for personal and business customers.

Acquisitions

Providian

In July 2003, Barclays took over Monument, the United Kingdom branch of the U.S. bank Providian, when it was sold off due to financial irregularities of its American parent company.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Barclaycard sold the Monument business and premises to CompuCredit Holdings Corporation in April 2007.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Egg

In March 2011, Barclays announced that it would be buying the British credit card business of Egg from Citigroup for an undisclosed price. At the time of the announcement, Barclays claimed that the credit card assets consisted of 1.15 million accounts with approximately £2.3bn of gross receivables.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> They intended to integrate those customers within their own credit card arm.

At the time of the announcement, Citi said it was "committed to working with Barclays on a seamless transfer of the customer accounts, ensuring continuation of the high level of service to which customers are accustomed".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Analog Analytics

In June 2012, Barclays acquired Analog Analytics, a digital coupon and daily deal business similar to Groupon.<ref name=LN1>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=LN2>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The Logic Group

In September 2014, Barclays announced it was going to acquire The Logic Group,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> a managed payment and loyalty business. The acquisition would enable Barclaycard's clients to benefit from The Logic Group's single platform transaction processing capabilities, alongside data insights, which would allow merchants to better target their services to customers.

In late 2014, Barclays confirmed that the Logic Group acquisition has been finalised.<ref name="home.barclaycard">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

External links

• Barclaycard Webpage