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Barclays brings you...
Barclaycard was the UK's very first credit card company established in 1966. A team of just seven people was given six months to set up this new business from a converted shoe factory in the center of Northampton . During its first year one million people signed up for a Barclaycard.
Today in the UK there are over 12m Barclaycard credit cards issued and around one in five credit cards is from Barclaycard (including Monument cards). Barclaycard credit cards can be used to pay for goods and services in more than 22 million places in over 200 countries.
Barclaycard is made up of three different businesses known as strategic business units (SBUs):
Barclaycard UK Consumer Finance
UK Consumer Finance (UKCF) is the business that looks after all Barclays unsecured lending, whether it is through credit cards or loans. The UKCF products available to customers include Barclaycard, Barclayloan, Marine Finance, the Monument credit card (formerly known as Providian) and Masterloan, as well as loans through the Firstplus business and Clydesdale Financial Services, our motor, store and point of sale finance business.
Barclaycard Corporate
This is made up of Barclaycard Merchant Services (BMS) which processes card vouchers for retailers/merchants and the Company Barclaycard business which issues cards to corporate customers.
Barclaycard International
Barclaycard International issue cards in 15 countries and are present in almost 50 across Europe , Africa and America .
Collectively these SBU’s are known as the Barclaycard Cluster.
Our Vision
Everything we do in Barclaycard is driven by our Vision and Commitments. Our Vision is that "We will be the most admired card business in the world, by delivering value through a deep understanding of our customers". Supporting this Vision we have four commitments under the headings of Customers, Colleagues, Company and Community. These are known as the 4C’s.