Credit card suppliers

Although it seems there are lots of credit cards to apply for, many are just different brands from the same card issuer. We have provided this list to show which suppliers issue which cards. This is important to stoozing, because some issuers will only let you have one of their cards and none of them allow you to Balance Transfer between their own cards.

This table also shows you which credit reference agencies (CRAs) each lender uses.
indicates that the lender uses Experian (click for free trial)
indicates that the lender uses equifax

Supplier	Brand
Santander	Abbey Alliance and Leicester Asda
Bank of Ireland	Post Office
Barclays	Barclaycard SkyCard Argos
Capital One	Capital One
CitiGroup	Egg Visa egg mastercard Citicard BMIBaby
Co-Op	Co-Op Amnesty International Barnardo's Childrens Aid Society Greenpeace Help the Aged Labour party visa Liberal Democrat Visa Medical Foundation Oxfam visa Ramblers Association Save the Children Smile Stroud & Swindon Yorkshire BS
HBOS	all "lifestyle" Amazon Britannia Carphone Warehouse Cancer Research Halifax IF ipoints NSPCC Sainsbury Smart
HSBC	First Direct HSBC Marks & Spencers Marbles GM card John Lewis
Lloyds TSB	Lloyds TSB Platinum More Than
RBS	Tesco Mint Lombard Direct Ulster Bank NatWest Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)
National Australia Gp	Yorkshire Bank Clydesdale Bank
American Express	American Express ( occasionally)
GE Capital	GE Money Paypal Debenhams
MBNA	Childline breakthough breast cancer british heart foundation BikeCard BMF BMI Cheshire Building Society homebase MBNA platinum+ Play.com BMI Amex ICICI Football clubs GB rugby league Melton Mobray Building Society Norwich & Peterborough PADI Ryanair Ski Club GB Star trek Sonycard Toys R US Unicef Virgin money Virgin Atlantic (Amex)Williams F1 World superbikes WWF
Nationwide	Nationwide

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