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...Discover Financial’s chief executive has resigned just weeks after the credit card company reached an agreement to be sold to rival Capital One....
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...And the holy grail for Capital One in all this is the credit card network that Discover has built. And it’s incredibly hard to build a payments network. And that’s what Discover has done....
...Discover Financial shares tumbled as one of the biggest credit card groups in the US revealed it has set aside almost $2bn to protect against loan losses and its quarterly profit more than halved....
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...and small banks as merchants gained the ability to steer customers to preferred credit cards....
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...The deal includes an additional interest-only security tied to nation’s credit score or an IMF deal....
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