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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Barclays to hire 300 in Delaware

"Barclaycard US, the credit card business of Barclays PLC in the United States, will be creating hundreds of new jobs in Delaware over the next five years," says Delaware Gov. Jack Markell in a statement. "Barclaycard will be opening a new customer contact center in Newark to support its growing payment card operations." The center, to open in  April, "will initially create 300 new jobs and could add as many as 500" at the onetime headquarters of former credit card lender MBNA Corp., now Buccini/Pollin Group's Iron Hill Corporate Center.

Barclays invites job applicants to www.JoinBarclays.com  Markell praised former Lt. Gov. John Carney, who he beat in last year's Democratic primary election, for helping convince Barclay to expand from its existing office center on Wilmington's Christina Riverfront. Asked if Delaware was subsidizing the UK-owned bank, Markell spokesman Joseph Rogalsky said the bank plans to apply for state "economic development" grants. Delaware also landed a new Sallie Mae loan-servicing center recently, run by John "Jack" Hewes, a former MBNA executive.

Delaware needs the jobs. The Newark Chrysler plant, which once employed 3,000, closed last year, and MBNA's new owner, Bank of America Corp., has cut over 3,000 in the past two years.

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