The credit cardjoint venture has made an encouraging start, signing up close to 1m customers in the first year of operations.
信用卡合资业务开局喜人，在运营的第一年就签下近100万个客户。
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However, Citigroup, which is believed to have originally contested SPDB's claims of an exclusivity deal, agreed not to set up a credit cardjoint venture with another Chinese bank until 2008.