EXHIBIT 99.5
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
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The Directors
Barclays Bank PLC
1234 Pavilion Drive
Northampton
NN4 7SG
The Directors
Gracechurch Card Funding (No. 4) PLC
54 Lombard Street
London
EC3P 3AH
The Directors
Barclaycard Funding PLC
54 Lombard Street
London
EC3P 3AH
The Directors
Gracechurch Receivables Trustee Limited
26 New Street
St. Helier
Jersey
JE2 3RA
February 28, 2004
Dear Sirs
Report of Independent Accountants
We have examined management’s Annual Servicer Certificate (Exhibit 99.4) that Barclays Bank PLC (“the Servicer”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Barclays PLC, has fulfilled its obligations, in its capacity as Servicer, in respect of the minimum servicing requirements for the credit card receivables arising on designated accounts as set forth in the clauses of the Beneficiaries Servicing Agreement between Barclaycard Funding PLC and Barclays Bank PLC dated 23 November 1999 (“BSA”) specified in paragraph 3 below during the year ended 31 December 2003 . Management is responsible for the Servicer’s compliance with those requirements. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on Servicer’s fulfilment of obligations under the BSA based on our examination.
Our examination was conducted in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and, accordingly, included examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting management’s assertion about the company’s compliance with those requirements and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our examination provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. Our examination does not provide a legal determination on the Servicer’s compliance with specified servicing requirements.
We examined the Servicer’s compliance with the BSA clauses 2.1 d, 2.1.e, 2.1.f, 2.1.j, 2.2.a, 2.5.a and 2.5.b, using definitions set forth in the Master Definitions schedule between Gracechurch Receivables Trustee Limited, Barclays Bank PLC and Barclaycard Funding PLC dated 8 April 2003.
Our examination of the cash management report for September 2003, identified an error in the cash transfer calculation, which resulted in an incorrect payment of £8,667,005 being made by the Servicer to Gracechurch Receivables Trustee Limited, which is an exception in relation to clause 2.5b.
In our opinion, except for the deviation stated in the previous paragraph, management’s assertion that the Servicer complied with the aforementioned requirements during the year ended 31 December 2003 is fairly stated, in all material respects.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
28 February 2004
Yours faithfully,
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
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