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MyVoucherCodes.co.uk launched by Mark Pearson in 2006 in his bedroom with £300. He initially started a company that delivered printed messages on roses called Roses by Design, but moved into vouchers after he found he was making more money promoting others products rather than his own and noticed there were no coupon sites in the UK.
Born. 1980 (age 43–44) Mark Pearson (born 1980) is a London, United Kingdom -based entrepreneur and investor. He founded and was CEO of Markco Media, a European discount network. [1][2][3] Markco Media is the parent company of MyVoucherCodes. In June 2014, Pearson sold Markco Media to the publicly listed mobile payments firm Monitise plc in a ...
Gift card. A gift card, also known as a gift certificate in North America, or gift voucher or gift token in the UK, [1] is a prepaid stored-value money card, usually issued by a retailer or bank, to be used as an alternative to cash for purchases within a particular store or related businesses. Gift cards are also given out by employers or ...
Zilch Technology Ltd., known as Zilch, is a direct-to-consumer ad-subsidised payments network. [1][2] Headquartered in London, Zilch combines payments and advertising to offer customers flexible payment solutions for online and in-store transactions, with the vision "to eliminate the cost of consumer credit. For good". [3][4][5]
Citibank (UK), owned by Citigroup of the United States. ICBC (London) plc, by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. ICICI Bank (UK), owned by ICICI Bank of India. Danske Bank (formerly Northern Bank), owned by Danske Bank of Denmark. Habib Bank UK, owned by Habib Bank of Pakistan.
CGS: Credit Guarantee Scheme - a scheme introduced in 2008 allowing banks to issue debt guaranteed by the government. The scheme closed in October 2012. SLS: Special Liquidity Scheme - designed to allow easier access to market liquidity by using UK Treasury securities as collateral. The scheme closed in January 2012.
Barings Bank. (Purchased for £1 by ING). Barings Bank was a British merchant bank based in London, and one of England's oldest merchant banks after Berenberg Bank, Barings' close collaborator and German representative. It was founded in 1762 by Francis Baring, a British-born member of the German–British Baring family of merchants and bankers.
A voucher can also be used online in the form of an e-voucher. These types of vouchers can be entered when shopping online and the relevant vouchers value added to your order. It can take the form of any code. Many companies have opted to use voucher codes for the last few years but with a massive incline in use towards late 2008 and early 2009.