The Citibank Silver MasterCard is a credit card that is offered by Citibank with MasterCard processing the payments. The Silver Card has a higher interest rate than is average but it aims to provide a better level of service than a standard or no frills credit card.  (more…)

The Citibank Clear Platinum VISA Credit Card is a prestige card that is offered by VISA and Citibank.

The card is aimed at people who are prepared to pay more for better services, and who want the prestige that attaches to a limited issue card.  The card is offered only to people with an income of at least $50,000.  (more…)

The petrol company BP (formerly British Petroleum) offer a credit card in conjunction with Citibank and MasterCard.  The card is currently called the BP-Citi MasterCard.

The card is essentially a money back card.  These reward cards give money back for purchases made with the card.  In effect they are charging a merchant fee to the shop to process the card and sharing some of this amount with a card holder.
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Citibank is a division of Citigroup one of the largest banks in the world.

The group itself is based in New York City in the USA.  It is the largest in house financial services network in the world with over 16,000 offices with 300,000 staff and 200 million customer accounts.

Citigroup’s long term aim has been to be a “one stop shop” a supermarket where a customer could get almost any financial product.  They try to cross sell products so that someone taking out a mortgage could also be sold credit cards.  The 2008 financial crisis meant that the US government took a 36% share in the business.
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The Emirates Citi Platinum credit card is a rewards card that is offered in conjunction with MasterCard and Citibank

Frequent flier cards are cards that offer rewards for spending on the cards in the shape of money off future flights.  In the case of the Emirates card it is tied to the airline, so the money off cannot be used on other airlines.  Although this limits the choice of flights on which this card can be used it also allows the rewards to be bigger.
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