By Joe Wallace

Barclays, a big player in U.S. credit cards, reckons it has ways to protect that business if the Trump administration pushes through a 10% cap on interest rates.

After the president called for the ceiling last month, shares of Barclays and U.S. card rivals fell. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said the policy risked "economic disaster."

Reporting earnings Tuesday, Barclays sounded more sanguine. Chief Financial Officer Anna Cross said the bank can pull a "number of levers," but there are so many possible outcomes she couldn't give any financial guidance about the policy.

In the U.S., Barclays mostly issues reward cards with partners like General Motors. Under many of these deals, Cross said, Barclays would share some of the costs of an interest-rate cap.

Barclays is broadening its U.S. consumer bank, gathering deposits to cut funding costs, and buying startup Best Egg as it pushes into personal loans.

Returns in the division, still a small part of Barclays, have jumped. Last quarter, that helped push overall pretax profit up about 12% from a year before to GBP1.9 billion, or $2.6 billion.

CEO C.S. Venkatakrishnan said Tuesday he wanted U.S. consumer bank revenue to grow at a high single-digit percentage rate each year through 2028.

One challenge: Any further drop in the dollar will weigh on revenue reported in British pounds. The same goes for Barclays's larger investment bank, which is geared toward Wall Street.

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