Credit Card Information

We have gathered together an index of some of the many credit card suppliers in the UK. Some of these companies are financial institutions and we have included a brief history of their development. To view any of these credit card suppliers please follow the links given below.

• Abbey National
  At the current moment Abbey has focus of two credit cards on offer, depending whether or not you are male or female you would choose either blue or pink credit card.
• American Express
  American Express have not always provided credit cards, they originally started as a freight company in the US which evolved into selling money orders and travellers’ cheques.
• Barclaycard
  Barclaycard is a credit card brought to you by Barclays Bank, one of the oldest and largest banks in the UK. Barclaycard is now available in many countries other than the UK.
• Bank of Ireland
  The Bank of Ireland also offers Credit Card services for retail, personal, commercial and business. They offer a wide range of commercial credit cards and are the only Irish bank to offer businesses both Visa and American Express.
• Bank of Scotland
  The Bank of Scotland was a financial institution in its own right until the merging of Halifax and BoS took place on 4 May 2001, creating the new bank called HBOS.
• Bradford & Bingley
  The Bradford and Bingley Building Society offer many financial services including credit cards and loans.
• Capital One
  Capital One is one of the most recent entrants into the financial market. Founded in 1995 as a local bank card issuer they have quickly evolved into being one of the largest credit card issuers in the World
• Cahoot
  Cahoot are owned by Abbey National. That should tell you that they have a substantial amount of financial clout behind them. They are a little more 'trendy' than the esatblished
• Citibank
  Citibank has been in circulation since 1812, and since then has grown from strength to strength, acquiring new businesses to create the huge financial institution that it is today.
• Clydesdale
  Clydesdale Bank are a Scottish based bank which was founded in 1838 with a head office in Glasgow and another smaller branch in Edinburgh
• Cooperative Bank
  The cooperative bank is quite a unique type of bank that promotes an ethical policy of banking. They first launched this ethical concept in 1992, they realize that any financial impacts...
• easyMoney
  The easy group was founded by Stelios Haji-Ioannou and initially begun by promoting low cost flights with easyjet.
• Egg
  Egg were the original online bank founded in 1998 and launched during the dot com boom. The fact that they are still operational and still show healthy products
• First Direct
  First Direct operate from 2 call centres in Leeds and Hamilton where First Direct claim to be excelling in many aspects of customer service
• Goldfish
  Goldfish are another trading name for Lloyds TSB. They are a UK based financial institution offering various financial products such as the Goldfish credit card
• GM
  General Motors are the manufacturers for Vauxhall cars in the UK and have launched a credit card that is completely different to any other credit card offer that is available in the UK.
• Hilton
  The Hilton group which offers a UK credit card is part of a worldwide organisation which has a worldwide reputation for hotels and leisure facilities.
• Lloyds TSB
  The origins of Lloyds will date back to 1765 when John Taylor and Sampson Lloyd set up the bank in England. Lloyds has continuously merged with other banks ..
• Lombard Direct
  Lombard Direct's origins began in 1861 when they first started trading as the North Central Wagon Company where they leased rolling stock for railway companies.
• HBOS
  Since 1998 HBOS charity credit cards have proved to be a real winner for charities as well as customer
• HSBC
  The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited was the original name of this worldwide bank
• Marbles
  Marbles is the brand name for a range of financial products offered by HFC bank
• MBNA
  MBNA are the world’s biggest credit card provider and has its headquarters based in Wilmington, Delaware in the United States and has an international presence via its operations in Canada, Ireland, Spain and the UK
• Mint
  MINT is a trading name of The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC and offers UK credit cards and unsecured loans.
• Morgan Stanley
  Morgan Stanley are worldwide organisation operating in global and local financial solutions market through a diverse range of companies
• Nationwide
  Nationwide is a long established financial organisation with over 150 years experience of looking after their members interests
• Northern Rock
  Based in Newcastle in the North-east of England Northern Rock see themselves as a specialist lender to the mortgage market.
• Royal Bank of Scotland
  The Royal Bank of Scotland is one of the oldest banks in the UK that are still in business today. The bank came to be in 1727 to offer merchants an alternative to the already established
• RSPCA
  RSPCA stands for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and is a registered charity. Since its inception in 1824..
• Saga
  Saga group is an organisation that caters specifically for the over 50’s market and offer their customers a wide range of products and benefits.
• Sainsbury's
  J. Sainsbury Plc is a well known and respected food retailer in the UK. However recent market diversification has seen J. Sainsbury expand to other markets
• Tesco
  Tesco are a name which we are used to seeing on our High street and retail parks across the UK and are usually associated with the food retail market.
• Texaco
  Formed in 1901 as the Texas Fuel Co over 100 years later and the company has grown considerably through natural growth and mergers.
• Virgin
  As you may or may not know the Virgin group started life as a magazine for students in the 1960’s. It was the brainchild of a young entrepreneur called Richard Branson.
• Yorkshire
  Unsurprisingly the Yorkshire Building society head office is located in Yorkshire, just outside Bradford to be precise on a purpose built complex.