Barclaycard is a multi-brand credit card and consumer lending business which also processes card payments for retailers and merchants and issues credit and charge cards to corporate customers and the UK Government.
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Consumers will sign up for a credit-card brand if it is widely accepted as a means of payment.
Lloyds TSB, for example, has shelved plans to roll out its Evolvebank in the UK, and instead teamed up with Centrica, using that firm's well-established Goldfish credit card brand to create a online and phone bank.
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Without the comfortable cover of a globally recognized brand name on my business card, my small team and I had to create and grow a business from scratch.
Still, you can only redeem rewards and reap fringe benefits when using the company tied to your credit card, so brand loyalty is also a very important consideration.
Some card companies might view store-brand cards as an opportunity to increase their overall loan portfolio.
Like the broader credit-card industry, delinquencies on store-brand or private-label cards are slowing.
Assessments are charged to customers (banks and financial institutions) for their participation in card programs carrying marks of the Visa brand.
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) standard was created by the credit card industry to protect the viability of their brand.
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Japan's Matsushita (nyse: MC - news - people) sells players under the Panasonic brand name, which use the Secure Digital (SD) card technology it developed with SanDisk.
With a Chevron or Texaco gas-only card, which can be used only at that brand of gas stations, you can get a 10-cents-per-gallon credit on your billing statement, to be applied to future gas purchases.
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So rather than spending my time clipping coupons, trying to find deals on the products I typically buy or accepting brand substitutions, I rely almost completely on scanning my store loyalty card for delivering discounts.
His data indicated, for instance, that people who bought cheap, generic automotive oil were much more likely to miss a credit-card payment than someone who got the expensive, name-brand stuff.
Like the Visa card, he's everywhere you want to be, if you like his brand.
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