Discover Financial Services (DFS)

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Discover Financial Services

2500 Lake Cook Road
Riverwoods, IL 60015
United States
224 405 0900
https://www.discover.com

Sector(s): Financial Services
Industry: Credit Services
Full-time employees: 20,200

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. John B. Owen	Independent Interim CEO & Pres and Director	72.92k	N/A	1961
Mr. John Thomas Greene	Exec. VP & CFO	2.25M	N/A	1966
Mr. Roger Crosby Hochschild	Adviser	2.64M	N/A	1965
Mr. Daniel Peter Capozzi	Exec. VP & Pres of Consumer Banking	2.32M	N/A	1972
Ms. Shifra Kolsky	Chief Accounting Officer, Sr. VP & Controller	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Jason Strle	Exec. VP & Chief Information Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. R. Andrew Eichfeld	Exec. VP and Chief HR & Admin. Officer	N/A	N/A	1970
Mr. Eric Edmund Wasserstrom	Head of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Hope D. Mehlman	Exec. VP, Chief Legal Officer, Gen. Counsel & Sec.	N/A	N/A	1965
Ms. Leslie Sutton	VP of Corp. Communications	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of 31 December 2022, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

Discover Financial Services, through its subsidiaries, provides digital banking products and services, and payment services in the United States. It operates in two segments, Digital Banking and Payment Services. The Digital Banking segment offers Discover-branded credit cards to individuals; private student loans, personal loans, home loans, and other consumer lending; and direct-to-consumer deposit products comprising savings accounts, certificates of deposit, money market accounts, IRA certificates of deposit, IRA savings accounts and checking accounts, and sweep accounts. The Payment Services segment operates the PULSE, an automated teller machine, debit, and electronic funds transfer network; and Diners Club International, a payments network that issues Diners Club branded charge cards and/or provides card acceptance services, as well as offers payment transaction processing and settlement services. The company was incorporated in 1960 and is based in Riverwoods, Illinois.

Corporate governance

Discover Financial Services’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 1 September 2023 is 6. The pillar scores are Audit: 7; Board: 2; Shareholder rights: 5; Compensation: 9.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.