Yeung Pui Yam
Background:
Barclaycard is a global credit provider (credit cards and loans) owned by Barclays plc in the UK. Barclay PLC is the largest bank in term of total asset value, which amounts to $1.9 trillion
The Barclaycard was the first credit card introduced in the UK, by purchasing the franchise of Visa¡¦s credit card system and technology. The service came into service in 1966. It enjoyed a monopoly until the introduction of the Access card in 1972, which was a consortium formed by National Westminster Bank, Midland Bank (now HSBC Bank), Lloyds Bank (now Lloyds TSB) and The Royal Bank of Scotland.
Nowadays, Barclaycard offers both MasterCard and VISA versions and its market is now not only constrained in U.K. Its subsidiary business unit, Barclaycard International, operate in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Greece, India, United Arabic Emirates, Sweden and South Africa. Furthermore, Barclaycard US ¡X separate from the Barclaycard global operation, this is the corporation's......
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