Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Discover is a rarity in that it operates both as a card issuer and a payments network....
...For their part, Morgan Stanley investment bankers were unhappy to carry Discover corporate credit cards instead of American Express in the decade that the group was combined with Dean Witter and Discover...
...A 7in touchscreen lets you search for, cue up and match tunes to perfection, and it’s rich in connectivity: SD card, USB, WiFi and, most notably, Bluetooth....
...Blankfein’s first hire at Marcus was Harit Talwar, the former US cards boss at Discover who went on to staff the business with other consumer banking veterans....
...Card tycoon Michael Rubin, the chief executive of Fanatics, went all in on trading cards — and became the most feared dealmaker of his generation in the process, Bloomberg reveals....
...Two scoops to start, first: JPMorgan Chase spent more than a year discussing a possible deal with Discover Financial before Capital One agreed a $35bn bid for the credit card company, as the largest US bank...
...Across the four biggest standalone credit card issuers in the US — American Express, Capital One Financial, Discover Financial Services and Synchrony Financial — shoppers made $579bn in purchases on their...
...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...I shamefacedly slunk into Cos for a couple of stretch knit skirts that I have worn almost every day through to the final weeks of my pregnancy....
...One major US deal to start: Capital One has agreed to buy Discover Financial for $35.3bn, in an all-stock tie-up that is set to unite two of America’s largest credit card companies. Details here....
...“My clients and I are impressed by the subtleties you discover when you put the clothes on,” she says. “It might be a twist here, a crop there. It’s very studied.”...
...I almost always discover exciting local artists and makers here, such as pottery from Very Less, whose berry bowl is now on my wishlist....
...“It’s typical of Le Marais,” says Alexandre Gourevitch, who runs Discover Walks, a walking tour business, of the treatment meted out by schoolchildren to the section of city fortification built by King Philippe...
...Saar Tzur had suspended the colour-coded ID card regime that limits many Palestinians’ movements around Jerusalem....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...The stock trades at almost 16 times forward earnings — twice that of rival credit card companies like Synchrony Financial and Discover Financial Services....
...“Without them there would be no integrated transport system, represented by the Overground, and the Oyster card....
...Miller or his corporate Christmas cards for Tiffany & Co, Warhol’s fabrics were not designed to sell or promote anything; they were pure design....
...But in an interview with the FT, Brad Goodall, chief executive and co-founder of Banked, a fintech that offers an alternative to card schemes, said his company had just secured a more than $15mn extension...
...It’s such a joy to discover a new author you love. I love his writing style, and his humour....
...All it takes is one Cambridge Analytica scandal, one whistleblower, one livestreamed mass-shooting, and users bolt for the exits, and then Facebook discovers that network effects are a double-edged sword...
...Henry V....
...There was a horrible culture clash between old and new in finance after Morgan Stanley merged with Dean Witter Discover, the retail broking and credit card group, in 1997....
...Harit Talwar, the first head of Marcus and the former US cards boss at Discover, in 2021 handed over day-to-day management to his longtime deputy, Omer Ismail....
...In 1997, the bank merged with Dean Witter, Discover & Co, a retail brokerage/credit card group. How did it go?...
International Edition