Editing Barclaycard (section)

===Egg===
In March 2011, Barclays announced that it would be buying the British credit card business of [[Egg Banking|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>{{cite news|agency=Reuters |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/mar/01/barclays-buy-egg-credit-card |title=Barclays to buy Egg credit card &#124; Business &#124; guardian.co.uk |publisher=Guardian |date= 1 March 2011|access-date=24 September 2012 |location=London}}</ref> They intended to integrate those customers within their own credit card arm.

At the time of the announcement, [[Citigroup|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>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12612927 |title=BBC News - Egg credit cards bought by Barclays bank |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=1 March 2011 |access-date=24 September 2012}}</ref>