Discover Financial Services

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Discover Financial Services is a holding company. The company is headquartered in Riverwoods, Illinois and currently employs 21,000 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2007-06-14. The firm is a bank holding company, as well as a financial holding company. The firm operates through two segments: Digital Banking and Payment Services. The Digital Banking segment includes consumer banking and lending products, specifically Discover-branded credit cards issued to individuals on the Discover Network and other consumer banking products and services, including personal loans, home loans and deposit products. The Payment Services segment includes PULSE, Diners Club and its Network Partners business, which provides payment transaction processing and settlement, merchant acquisition, ATM access and related payments services on the Discover Global Network. Its Diners Club business maintains a global acceptance network through its relationships with licensees. Its processing services cover four functional areas: card personalization, print/mail, remittance processing and item processing.