Virgin Money is to create at least 150 jobs at a new credit card operation at the former Northern Rock headquarters on Tyneside next year. 21-Jan-2013
CPP is looking to shed up to 100 of the 1,000 jobs at its credit card insurance operations in York and Chesterfield. 13-Mar-2012
American Express is planning to shed up to 190 of the 2,900 jobs at its Brighton-based credit cards business, in order to transfer some work to India or Argentina. 23-Feb-2012
MBNA is to shed 400 of the 3,500 jobs at the Chester headquarters of its credit cards business. 05-Oct-2011
MBNA is considering the future of its 3,500 staff in Chester, following a decision by parent company Bank of America to exit its credit card business in the UK. 17-Aug-2011
CPP is to shed an estimated 20 of the 1,000 jobs at its credit card and identity protection business in York. 25-Jul-2011
Provident Financial is considering plans to set up a new call centre for its Vanquis Bank credit card subsidiary in Bradford, with the creation of up to 250 jobs. 05-May-2011
Barclays has acquired the small business credit card portfolio of MBNA Europe, which will affect up to 50 staff in Chester. 05-Apr-2011
Barclays is to acquire Egg's UK credit card assets, in order to expand its Barclaycard division with 1.1m new accounts. 01-Mar-2011
WorldPay has acquired Cardsave, the Grimsby-based credit card processing firm, for undisclosed terms. 04-Jan-2011
Royal Bank of Scotland has sold an 80% stake in its WorldPay credit card payment business to a team backed by Advent International and Bain Capital for £850m. 09-Aug-2010
Cardsave Group of Grimsby has acquired the credit card terminal hire operations of Transaction Network Services. 31-Mar-2010
NCC Group is to acquire Meridian Services International, the Warrington-based credit card security firm with 13 staff, for £3m. 22-Mar-2010
CPP Group, the York-based credit card insurance provider, has announced plans for a flotation to fund its expansion into China, India and Mexico. 22-Feb-2010
Barclays has acquired the Italian credit card operations of Citi for undisclosed terms, including gross assets of £205m. 15-Feb-2010
E-Clear, the credit card payment processing company, has gone into administration through BDO with debts estimated at £100m. 20-Jan-2010
HSBC is to shed a further 1,700 back-office jobs and close credit card processing centres in Sheffield, Southampton and Southend over the next 18 months, but up to 500 jobs will be created in Birmingham. 04-Nov-2009
Barclaycard is considering plans to shed dozens of jobs at its credit card operations in Northampton. 20-Aug-2009
CPP is planning to create a further 250 jobs at its credit card and mobile phones call centre in Chesterfield by the end of the year. 29-Jun-2009
Skipton Building Society is to acquire the savings business of Capital One, allowing Capital One to focus on credit cards. 25-Jun-2009
Capital One is to shed a further 100 jobs at its credit card operation in Nottingham in June. 19-Mar-2009
GE Capital is to shed 100 jobs from its personal loans and credit cards business over the next year, and many of the cuts will be from its 1,600-strong workforce in Leeds. 19-Mar-2009
Citigroup is planning to cut the workforce in its global financial services business by 52,000 jobs, which is likely to affect its investment banking operation in London, the Egg credit card business in Derby and the administrative unit in Belfast. 18-Nov-2008
HSBC is considering a site at Monks Cross in York for the development of a new credit card data processing centre, which could create up to 200 jobs. 17-Sep-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
Barclays is to close its Goldfish credit card service centre in Cumbernauld with the loss of up to 900 jobs, in order to transfer the work to Kirkby, Northampton and Teesside, and a further 90 jobs will go at the Goldfish office in London. 08-May-2008
CPP Group is to open a new credit card marketing services call centre in Chesterfield in July, with the creation of 300 jobs. 18-Apr-2008
Capital One is to shed up to 750 jobs at its Nottingham-based credit card business, in order to transfer call centre and account servicing work to India. 09-Apr-2008
Barclays has acquired the UK credit card business of Discover Financial Services, including about 700,000 Goldfish customers, for £35m. 11-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
CPP, the credit card insurer with 1,200 staff at a call centre in York, is considering plans for a £500m sale or flotation early next year, having appointed UBS to conduct a strategic review. 12-Nov-2007
HSBC has sold its Marbles and Beneficial credit card operations to SAV Credit for £385m. 31-Oct-2007
Nationwide is to outsource its credit card processing operation to TSYS, and a new call centre will open in Coventry next year with capacity for up to 300 staff. 12-Sep-2007
Experian is to transfer about 150 Nottingham-based staff to First Data International, following its decision to withdraw from processing credit card accounts. 30-Aug-2007
Cardsave, the credit card services company, has undergone a £70m management buy-out backed by Exponent Private Equity. 13-Aug-2007
Visa Europe, the credit card company, is said to be planning to set up a new 56,000 sq ft office at Kennet Wharf in Reading, with the relocation of hundreds of staff from Basingstoke. 09-May-2007
Barclays Bank has sold most of Monument, its Sussex-based sub-prime credit card business, to Compucredit of the US for £390m. 06-Apr-2007
GE Money, the loans and credit card company, is in negotiations to set up a 100,000 sq ft office at the Cobalt Business Park in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 25-Sep-2006
BMW is to expand its financial services business in the UK by offering credit cards, savings products and insurance, in a series of partnerships with American Express, Newcastle Building Society and Royal Bank of Scotland. 30-May-2006
Experian is to end its credit card and store card processing work by 2009, and most of the 200 Nottingham-based staff will be redeployed. 02-May-2006
Morgan Stanley has announced plans to create 300 new jobs at its credit card division in Glasgow, having secured a £3.2m regional assistance grant from the Scottish Executive. 05-Apr-2006
Sage has acquired Verus Financial Management, the US credit card and cheque processing company, for £184m. 10-Jan-2006
CPP Group, the provider of insurance plans for credit card holders, has secured £25m of funding to expand in Europe and Asia and to improve facilities at its York headquarters. 27-Dec-2005
Lloyds TSB is to sell its Goldfish credit card business to Morgan Stanley of the US for £1bn. 21-Dec-2005
Capital One is looking to simplify the management structure at its Nottingham-based credit cards business, with the loss of an unspecified number of jobs from the 2,200-strong workforce. 09-Nov-2005
HSBC has acquired Metris, the US credit card company, for £898m. 05-Aug-2005
MBNA, the credit card company with 4,000 staff in Chester, is to be acquired by Bank of America in a £20bn deal. 04-Jul-2005
MBNA Europe, the credit card company, is to set up an in-house transactional printing operation at its Chester headquarters, with the creation of 80 jobs. 22-Apr-2005
Avon UK is looking to recruit a further 20,000 people to its direct salesforce, and may expand its product range by offering life insurance, motor insurance and credit cards. 16-Feb-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
MBNA is to shed 100 of the 5,000 jobs at its Chester-based credit cards business. 25-Jan-2005
First Data Europe is to shed 80 jobs at its credit card processing office in Basildon. 01-Sep-2004
Barclays has acquired Juniper, the US credit card company, from CIBC for £160m. 19-Aug-2004
Royal Bank of Scotland is to acquire the US credit card operations of Connecticut-based People's Bank for £200m. 04-Feb-2004
Halifax Card Services is to recruit 150 additional staff at its credit card customer service centre in Cardiff over the next three months. 23-Dec-2003
Centrica has agreed to sell the Goldfish credit card and personal loans business to Lloyds TSB in a £112m deal. 01-Aug-2003
Northern Rock is in advanced discussions to sell its credit card business to the Co-operative Bank. 29-May-2003
Royal Bank of Scotland is to buy the German credit card operations of Santander Central Hispano for undisclosed terms, while the South American private banking operations of its Coutts division are being sold to SCH. 15-May-2003
Barclaycard is seeking opportunities to expand its credit card business into east Asia. 01-Apr-2003
MBNA, the credit card company, has won planning permission to almost double the size of its European headquarters at the Chester Business Park, creating up to 2,700 new jobs. 28-Feb-2003
Provident Financial is to spend £7m piloting new credit cards over the next 18 months, and £6m expanding its international operations into Slovakia, Hungary and Mexico. 27-Feb-2003
Egg is planning to move into the French financial services market with the launch of a new Visa credit card. 30-Oct-2002
MBNA is to create a further 500 jobs at call centres in Chester, Ireland and Spain this year, following the acquisition of the Alliance & Leicester credit card operation. 16-Sep-2002
Alliance & Leicester has sold its credit card business to MBNA of the US for £225m, but will continue to sell cards in an outsourcing arrangement with MBNA. 29-Jul-2002
Centrica has confirmed plans to set up a call centre for the Goldfish credit card at Atlantic Quay in Glasgow by July, with the creation of 200 jobs. 12-Apr-2002
The Association for Payment Clearing Services has selected Northampton to host the UK's first major trial of smartcards, in an attempt to cut credit card fraud in shops. 02-Apr-2002
The AA is to create 120 new jobs at its call centre in Newcastle upon Tyne to deal with customers for its new credit card. 21-Feb-2002
MBNA is planning to set up a new credit card sales and administration office at the Chester Business Park this summer, with the creation of up to 500 jobs. 01-Feb-2002
Morgan Stanley is planning to create up to 450 jobs in Glasgow over the next three years, and will set up a new credit card operation at the Cerium Building in Cadogan Square later this year. 23-Jan-2002
American Express is planning to shed about 6,000 jobs in its worldwide credit card and travel services business, which is expected to affect about 400 UK-based staff at offices in Brighton and London. 13-Dec-2001
HBOS is planning to centralise most of its credit card marketing, sales, finance and administration functions in Cardiff and its credit card processing and customer service facilities in Dunfermline. 19-Nov-2001
Sportscard, the provider of credit cards to sports fans, is being acquired by UKbetting for £4.4m. 26-Sep-2001
MBNA is seeking permission to double the size of its credit card headquarters on Chester Business Park, which could lead to the creation of up to 3,000 jobs. 10-Sep-2001
Standard Chartered is seeking credit card acquisitions in Hong Kong, and has also announced plans to list in Hong Kong and raise £450m in a share issue. 02-Aug-2001
Abbey National is to sell its credit card division to MBNA for £289m, but the cards will continue to carry the Abbey National logo and the bank will receive a commission for every account opened. 20-Mar-2001
Bank of Scotland is forming a joint venture with Zurich Financial Services to offer bank accounts, credit cards, loans and mortgages to Zurich's customers. 19-Mar-2001
Citigroup has announced plans to expand its European operations from its new London headquarters, and will focus on investment banking, wealth management and credit cards. 21-Feb-2001
First Data Resources is to shed 700 jobs at its credit card processing operations in Southend and Basildon. 29-Sep-2000
Sportscard, the supplier of credit cards to sports fans, is planning to raise £14m in a share placing on Aim, with some of the proceeds being spent on a marketing campaign. 11-Sep-2000
Centrica is looking to significantly expand its Goldfish financial services business by forming partnerships in credit cards, home loans and insurance. 08-Sep-2000
Standard Chartered has sold its Chartered Trust leasing and motor finance subsidiary to Lloyds TSB for £627m, and has also announced the acquisition of Chase Manhattan's credit card business in Hong Kong for £825m. 04-Sep-2000
CPP is looking to recruit a further 500 staff at its credit card call centre in York this year. 06-Jul-2000
Halifax has acquired Bank One's UK credit card operation, and plans to relocate most of its existing cards business to Cardiff. 23-Jun-2000
Capital One is planning a £60m expansion at its credit card call centre in Nottingham, with the creation of up to 1,200 jobs. 13-Jun-2000
National Westminster Bank is acquiring a 13% stake in WorldPay, the Cambridge-based supplier of internet credit card payment services, for £23m. 03-Mar-2000
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter is in negotiations to buy Bank One's UK credit card business. 04-Feb-2000
Capital One is considering plans to expand its credit card centre in Nottingham, as part of an expansion plan that will create a further 1,000 jobs in its European operations. 12-Jan-2000
Card Clear, the credit card security group, is planning to float off its online and telephone businesses for up to £50m, in order to increase its stock market rating. 29-Dec-1999
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
CPP, the credit card insurance company, is relocating its senior management from London to York, and plans to open a new office building next year. 30-Nov-1999
Card Clear, the credit card fraud prevention company, is to demerge its US subsidiary and parts of its UK operation, and a new company will be created to buy the two divisions and seek a stockmarket listing. 01-Nov-1999
Halifax is to outsource its credit card processing to EDS, which will result in more work for EDS sites in Swansea, Durham and Sheffield. 16-Aug-1999
Providian National Bank, the US credit card company, is considering plans to set up an office in Crawley with the creation of 500 jobs. 05-Aug-1999
Card Protection Plan is planning to set up a new credit card insurance office at Holgate Park in York, with the creation of 750 jobs. 14-Apr-1999
CPP, the credit card insurance company, has opened a new customer service centre in York, and it expects to take on up to 1,000 staff over the next five years. 15-Mar-1999
Capital One, the credit card group, is increasing investment at its Nottingham operations centre to £50m and aims to recruit 900 staff this year. 24-Feb-1999
The government has ordered a review of the banking industry due to consumer dissatisfaction and concerns over a lack of competition, and it will focus on credit card processing, payment systems and credit for small businesses. 26-Jan-1999
Card Protection Plan, the global credit card insurer, is to set up a £10m call centre in York, with the creation of 750 jobs. 17-Dec-1998
Tottenham Hotspur football club is to launch a new range of financial services for its supporters, including insurance, credit card and a building society deposit scheme. 22-Oct-1998
Bank One International of the US is to start marketing credit cards in the UK from new offices in Cardiff Bay, creating 100 jobs initially and up to 1,000 in five years. 18-Sep-1998