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Barclaycard (/ ˈ b ɑːr k l i k ɑːr d,-l eɪ-/; stylized as barclaycard) is a brand for credit cards of Barclays PLC. As of 2010 [update] , Barclays had over ten million customers in the United Kingdom.
Access was a British credit card brand launched by Lloyds Bank, Midland Bank and National Westminster Bank in 1972 to rival the already established Barclaycard. [1] The business operated from Southend-on-Sea, until 1989 when part of the business was transferred to Basildon.
Barclays launched the first credit card in the UK, Barclaycard, in 1966. On 27 June 1967, Barclays deployed the world's first cash machine , in Enfield ; Barclays Bank, Enfield . [ 28 ] [ 29 ] The British actor Reg Varney was the first person to use the machine.
Consequently, TfL is now one of Europe's largest contactless merchants, with around 1 in 10 contactless transactions in the UK taking place on the TfL network. [ 10 ] In 2016, TfL licensed their contactless payment system to Cubic , the original developers of the Oyster card, allowing the technology to be sold to other transport providers ...
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On 13 May 2013 the company completed the purchase of Santander UK's store card business, including branded cards issued for retailers including Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, House of Fraser and Debenhams. [2] Santander continued to operate the cards business until 1 April 2014, when SAV took full control and was renamed NewDay. [3] [4]