In July 2003, Barclays took over Monument, the United Kingdom branch of the U.S. bank Providian, when it was sold off due to financial irregularities of its American parent company.

[11] In March 2011, Barclays announced that it would be buying the British credit card business of Egg from Citigroup for an undisclosed price.

At the time of the announcement, Barclays claimed that the credit card assets consisted of 1.15 million accounts with approximately £2.3bn of gross receivables.

[13] In June 2012, Barclays acquired Analog Analytics, a digital coupon and daily deal business similar to Groupon.

The acquisition would enable Barclaycard's clients to benefit from The Logic Group's single platform transaction processing capabilities, alongside data insights, which would allow merchants to better target their services to customers.