- LONDON: Barclays Bankis buying the credit card accounts of Egg, an online financial services company.
Barclays said on Tuesday that it is acquiring 1.15 million credit card accounts with 2.3 billion pounds ($3.75 billion) of gross receivables.
Barclays says the acquisition will be folded into its existing Barclaycard business.
Barclays says it bought the credit card business at a significant discount from the receivables, but the price was not disclosed.

