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...The top US consumer finance watchdog has raised doubts about megamergers in the credit card industry, just as Capital One attempts to close its $35.3bn takeover of card issuer Discover Financial Services...
...Discover is a rarity in that it operates both as a card issuer and a payments network....
...In 2023, outstanding credit card balances surpassed $1tn for the first time. Discover’s fourth-quarter net income of $388mn was down 62 per cent from a year earlier....
...Discover Financial’s chief executive has resigned just weeks after the credit card company reached an agreement to be sold to rival Capital One....
...US lender Capital One is nearing a deal to buy rival Discover Financial, according to two people familiar with the matter, in a tie-up that would unite two of America’s largest credit card companies....
...Donald Trump is losing support from small donors, US lender Capital One has agreed to buy rival Discover Financial for $35.3bn, and Barclays updated investors on its strategy for the first time in eight...
...Capital One and Discover are two of the biggest credit card lenders, behind JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup....
...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....
...Yet the addition of Discover’s card network, the fourth largest in the US, could strengthen a competitor to industry leaders Visa and Mastercard, Capital One has said....
...Capital One Financial, which is buying rival Discover Financial Services, is up 50 per cent. Americans held more than $1.1tn on their credit cards at the end of 2023, an all-time high....
...Discover is a combined credit card payment network and card-issuing bank. It ranks fourth as a network behind the titans Visa, Mastercard and American Express....
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...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...
...JPMorgan Chase spent about a year discussing a possible deal with Discover Financial before Capital One agreed a $35bn bid for the credit card company....
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...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....
...Capital One Financial agreed to buy Discover Financial Services for $35bn in stock....
...This challenge is mirrored by what we write in Christmas cards. Most cards fall into one of the opposing extremes: they say too little or too much....
...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...
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...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...
...Barclays wants its US cards business to hit $40bn by 2026, from $32bn last year, and for retail to grow to 20 per cent of the portfolio from 15 per cent currently....
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...Would I go through the hassle of another card, another application, another password? No thank you....
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