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: 21,100

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. J. Michael Shepherd	Interim CEO, President & Director	60.42k	N/A	1955
Mr. John Thomas Greene	Executive VP & CFO	1.33M	N/A	1966
Ms. Hope D. Mehlman	Executive VP, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary	4.42M	N/A	1965
Mr. Daniel Peter Capozzi	Executive VP & President of Consumer Banking	913.47k	N/A	1972
Mr. Keith E. Toney	Executive VP and President of Credit & Decision Management	1.12M	N/A	1972
Ms. Shifra Kolsky	Chief Accounting Officer, Senior VP & Controller	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Jason J. Strle	Executive VP & Chief Information Officer	N/A	N/A	1977
Mr. Eric Edmund Wasserstrom	Head of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Leslie Sutton	Vice President of Corporate Communications	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of 31 December 2023, 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 to access automated teller machines, 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 April 2024 is 7. The pillar scores are Audit: 10; Board: 1; 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.