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Barclaycard is to close its Barclays Partner Finance operation in Glasgow with the loss of 350 jobs, in order to transfer the work to Cardiff and other locations. 07-Dec-2009 Barclaycard is considering plans to shed dozens of jobs at its credit card operations in Northampton. 20-Aug-2009 Barclaycard is seeking a further 120 customer services and sales staff for its call centre at Teesdale on Teesside. 14-Aug-2008 Scottish & Southern Energy has agreed to acquire the Goldfish credit card call centre in Cumbernauld from Barclaycard, which should secure the future of 800 jobs. 11-Jun-2008 Barclaycard is to relocate its Sky Card operation and up to 250 jobs from Crawley to Milton Keynes. 18-Feb-2008 Barclaycard is to close its credit card production operation in Northampton later this year with the loss of up to 160 jobs, in order to transfer print production to RR Donnelley in Buckinghamshire and Gloucestershire, mailing to Leicestershire and card operations to Gemalto in Hampshire. 06-Feb-2008 Barclaycard is to close its Peterloo House call centre in Manchester in July with the loss of 630 jobs, in order to transfer work to India. 07-Mar-2007 Barclaycard is to shed up to 200 jobs at its headquarters in Northampton, which will mainly affect the card acquiring and corporate side of the business. 12-Feb-2007 Barclaycard is said to be planning to set up a 100,000 sq ft office at the Spinningfields development in Manchester. 31-Oct-2005 Barclaycard is to invest £76m expanding its credit cards business into Sweden and Norway, having formed a joint venture with Swedbank. 07-Feb-2005 Barclaycard is seeking opportunities to expand its credit card business into east Asia. 01-Apr-2003 Barclaycard is to transfer 100 administrative jobs from its Thornaby call centre on Teesside to India, which should free up more space for customer services staff. 22-Nov-2002 Barclaycard is forming a £30m joint venture with Nomura International to develop a new online shopping site that will enable customers to search for products offered by 50 retailers. 13-Oct-2000 Barclaycard is considering plans to provide free smartcard readers to its 10m credit card holders, in an attempt to revolutionise internet-based transactions. 10-Dec-1999 Barclaycard and Cellnet have announced plans to test a new service in Leeds that will enable people to charge banking cards with cash using special mobile phones. 20-Feb-1999 Barclaycard is to cut 1,100 jobs at offices in Northampton, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Teesside, in order to cut costs in response to falling market share. 23-Sep-1998 Eastern is linking up with Barclaycard to offer savings on energy bills to customers who pay with their credit card, and further details will be announced later in the year. 19-May-1998 Barclaycard is linking up with Europay, the European payments system, to trial a new generation of chip-based credit and debit cards that will allow secure transactions to take place over the internet. 18-Feb-1998 Barclaycard is linking up with BTI UK Hogg Robinson to launch a jointly branded corporate Visa card that will enable companies to manage their business travel expenses in a single system. 27-Jan-1998 Barclaycard is to outsource all customer payment processing to Business Support Services, a division of the GUS mail order group, which will set up a new centre in Bolton. 18-Nov-1996 Cellnet is to link with Barclaycard to offer customers the ability to display details of their credit card account on their mobile phone handsets. 06-Apr-1996 Barclaycard and Cellnet are planning to launch a special phone which would allow Barclaycard customers to pay bills, see account details and possibly make electronic payments. 10-Oct-1995
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