Discover Financial Services

142 results about this entity

Period: 04 Oct 2004 - 22 Apr 2025

Discover ordered to refund customers $200m over deceptive marketing

Discover Financial Services has been ordered by US authorities to refund around $200 million to more than 3.5 million cardholders that it mislead into buying unnecessary add-on products.

PayPal taps Discover network to reach millions of US stores

PayPal has struck a deal with Discover that will see it tap into the card firm's network to bring acceptance of its mobile wallet to millions of US stores.

Discover backs Google Wallet

Discover has given its blessing to Google Wallet, adding a click-to-add feature to its online customer account centre to make it easy for customers to load their card to the search giant's mobile payments system.

Google Wallet moves to the cloud to support all credit and debit cards

Google is bidding to breathe new life into its stuttering mobile wallet platform by launching a cloud-based version of the app that can be linked to Visa, American Express and Discover cards.

AmEx jumps aboard US EMV train

Following in the footsteps of Visa, MasterCard and Discover, American Express has set out a timetable for its US abandonment of mag-stripe cards in favour of EMV chip technology.

Discover joins US EMV bandwagon

Discover Financial Services has fallen in line behind larger rivals Visa and MasterCard, setting out a timetable for the US abandonment of mag-stripe cards in favour of EMV chip technology

Discover sponsors Farmville game expansion

Discover Financial Services is bidding to woo the kids this Christmas, signing on as sponsor for an expansion of the hugely popular FarmVille social game.

Google launches mobile wallet

Search engine giant Google has kicked off a new era in payments with the formal launch of its mobile wallet service and the announcement of new co-operation agreements with Visa, Discover and American Express.

China UnionPay overtakes Visa as world's biggest card scheme

China UnionPay has overtaken Visa as the world's largest payments card scheme, according to Retail Banking Research (RBR).

Isis sign card networks to NFC m-payments service

Isis, the contactless mobile payments venture set up by major US network operators has brought on board Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

Discover begins roll out of contactless cards and stickers

US card scheme Discover has begun issuing contactless credit cards and stickers, targeted at early adopters of mobile technology.

US telcos hire GE Capital's Abbott to lead contactless m-payments venture

US wireless firms AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have appointed GE Capital veteran Michael Abbott to head up a new contactless mobile payments joint venture.