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...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....
...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....
...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....
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...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....
...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....
...Trust rests in a central counterparty, with a multinational corporation acting both as the custodian and the clearing house....
...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....
...The lorry management software and fuel cards payment provider, which trades as Eurowag, said: “At this stage, the group does not intend to pay dividends; instead, it intends to prioritise investment in growth...
...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...
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...Credit card interest and fees increased by $51bn in that time to $157bn, according to data provided by US banks to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....
...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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