Mr Jenkins was in charge at Barclaycard at a time when PPI was mis-sold.
Barclaycard, which has more than 9m customers, charges most of them 17.9% on overdue balances.
Barclaycard PayTag is safe and secure, and comes with the same 100% fraud protection as any Barclaycard.
ENGADGET: Barclays releases PayTag: the NFC card you glue to your phone (video)
Barclaycard today announced the launch of Barclaycard PayTag, a new way to pay with your mobile telephone.
ENGADGET: Barclays releases PayTag: the NFC card you glue to your phone (video)
Lloyds and MBNA did say they were looking at whether they might provide the same service as Barclaycard.
He said he need not have resigned even though he was in charge at Barclaycard during one mis-selling episode.
House of Fraser also announced it had agreed a deal with Barclaycard to manage its financial services division, which includes its store card.
Customers are also offered access to the products and expertise of other businesses in the group, particularly Barclays Capital, Barclaycard and Barclays Wealth.
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As Barclaycard launched a new credit card offer, Mr Hoffman told Money Box the company had learned the lessons of the last year.
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Barclaycard's chief executive, Gary Hoffman, defends his company's high interest rates in part because of the need to make good losses from fraud.
Barclaycard PayTag provides customers with the choice of simple mobile phone payments now, without having to wait to upgrade, and at no additional cost.
ENGADGET: Barclays releases PayTag: the NFC card you glue to your phone (video)
In the UK, mobile network operator Orange launched Quick Tap with Barclaycard last May, which was quickly followed by Google Wallet along with MasterCard.
Separately, the Times said Barclays paid million of pounds to its head of Barclaycard, Anthony Jenkins, for a role that never came to fruition.
Millions of Barclaycard customers will be offered the chance to make payments with any mobile phone by simply sticking a Barclaycard PayTag to the back of their handset.
ENGADGET: Barclays releases PayTag: the NFC card you glue to your phone (video)
Money Box found that most of Barclaycard's big rivals, including RBS Advanta, Lloyds, MBNA and Capital One, are not actively telling people to contact them before they travel abroad.
An exclusive group of customers will be invited to receive their Barclaycard PayTag in the coming weeks, before they are offered to millions of Barclaycard customers later in the year.
ENGADGET: Barclays releases PayTag: the NFC card you glue to your phone (video)
The offer is not available to Barclaycard's 8.5m existing customers in the UK, although they are being offered a special rate of 2.9% on any balance they transfer from other cards.
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This can only harm Barclaycard, Britain's best-selling credit card.
Last week Barclaycard and Orange announced that credit or debit card holders from all UK banks would be able to load money onto Barclaycard's mobile payments application, in the Quick Tap wallet.
ENGADGET: Barclays releases PayTag: the NFC card you glue to your phone (video)
Barclaycard PayTag is another milestone on our journey to make paying easier, and sits alongside other easy ways to pay with your mobile such as those we offer in partnership with Orange.
ENGADGET: Barclays releases PayTag: the NFC card you glue to your phone (video)
Barclaycard is a multi-brand credit card and consumer lending business which also processes card payments for retailers and merchants and issues credit and charge cards to corporate customers and the UK Government.
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The shake-up follows a three-month probe by Barclaycard into the integration of ShopSmart, which even before April's merger claimed to be the UK's leading internet shopping gateway, with more than 500, 000 visitors each month.
Meantime, the NFL replaced Bank of America by signing up Barclaycard US as an issuer of its co-branded credit cards (Bank of America is still active with some individual NFL teams, and remains the offical bank of Major League Baseball).
For instance, Apple offers customers up to 18 months interest-free on purchases on a card from Barclaycard US. But if you don't pay off that specific purchase in the interest-free period, you'll face a variable annual percentage rate that's currently about 23%, according to the Apple website.
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