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9 unusual facts about Capital One


2007–08 Sheffield United F.C. season

Sheffield United maintained both their kit manufacturing agreement with French company Le Coq Sportif, who produced a new home kit for the season, and their kit sponsorship agreement with American bank Capital One.

2008–09 Sheffield United F.C. season

The club ended their kit sponsorship agreement with American bank Capital One at the end of the previous season.

Canada Cup of Curling

The Capital One Canada Cup of Curling is a major men's and women's curling championship in Canada.

Capital One

Similar to the U.S. parent, Capital One Canada is Canada Post's second largest customer.

Discover Financial

Discover is the fourth largest credit card issuer, when measured by card balances, behind Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Citi, and ahead of Capital One and American Express.

GM Card

The GM Card is a co-branded rewards credit card program with consumer cards offered by Capital One and business cards offered by Chase.

Capital One acquired many of HSBC's U.S. credit card customers and some of its products in May of 2012 for $2.6 billion and another $31.3 billion to cover the balances on the accounts transferred.

Jeremy Gutsche

Prior to starting Trend Hunter, Jeremy Gutsche was a management consultant with the Monitor Group and was Capital One's Director of Upmarket in Canada.

Merchant account provider

Now, very few banks issue credit cards and the industry is dominated by a few large issuers - Elavon, Citibank, Capital One, MBNA / Bank of America, and Chase.


Jon Bond

The firm became the largest independently held agency in the United States, with clients including BMW, Target, Citi, Capital One, Tommy Hilfiger, Victoria's Secret, Verizon, AT&T, Snapple, and Delta Airlines, among others.

Payment protection insurance

Alliance and Leicester were fined £7m for their part in the mis-selling controversy, several others including Capital One, HFC and Egg were fined up to £1.1m.

Ryan Nassib

Nassib was named the National Football Foundation National Scholar-Athlete Award winner presented by Fidelity Investments and he also made the 2012 Capital One Academic All-District Team selection.

Vanessa O'Brien

She also held senior roles in finance, strategic planning and business development at Capital One and GE Capital in the United States.


see also

Hobart International Airport

During December 2007, the Tasmanian Government sold the Tasmanian Ports Corporation-owned subsidiary for A$350 million to the Tasmanian Gateway Consortium, a private consortium made up of Macquarie Capital (one of Macquarie Group's infrastructure funds) and Tasmania's public sector superannuation fund, the Retirement Benefits Fund.

Richard M. Fairbanks

:For the founder of Capital One, see Richard Fairbank.