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2021 bank reputation survey: Goodwill humming
Discover spends millions on ads, loosens credit in bid to spur lending
Discover adds historically Black college to employees’ free-tuition list
Discover invests in tech to win more consumers
Stimulus funds, recovery drove Discover's 1Q earnings
Discover opening call center in low-income Chicago neighborhood
The operation will employ 1,000 people in a predominantly Black community. The move is part of the city's push to create job opportunities beyond the downtown area. ... Read full article
CFPB orders Discover to pay $35 million for student lending mishaps
The consumer bureau said the bank’s migration to a new servicing platform led to unauthorized payment withdrawals, misrepresentations about what borrowers owed and violations of a prior 2015 enforcement action. ... Read full article
EBay hires Discover’s U.S. cards chief to drive growth
EBay has hired Discover’s top U.S. cards executive, Julie Loger, for the newly created position of global chief growth officer. ... Read full article
Card companies, surprised by low write-offs, seek new customers
Lenders have spent months puzzled by the persistently low delinquencies on their credit cards. Now, they’re seizing the moment. ... Read full article
How long will banks have to keep padding loan-loss reserves?
Lenders are cautioning not only that second-quarter provisions might exceed the spike seen earlier this year, but also that credit costs could be elevated into 2021 if the economic slowdown drags on or fears of a second coronavirus wave are borne out. ... Read full article
Discover takes new approach to fraud as coronavirus drives more online, phone applications
Discover transitioned all of its 8,600 U.S.-based call center personnel to work from home within a matter of days after the U.S. declared a national emergency on March 13. By March 20, Discover had 95% of its agents working from home using a thin-client ... Read full article
Fed terminates enforcement actions against four large banks
The three cease and desist orders and one written agreement had cited separate concerns at JPMorgan Chase, Discover, Deutsche Bank and RBS. ... Read full article
Discover's shares tumble after warnings on costs, credit quality
The credit card lender has seen problem loans spike since it introduced a feature that lets at-risk customers restructure loans through its online and mobile channels. ... Read full article
New suit against Discover highlights lingering robocalling risk
The case — the card issuer's third in six years — is an example of the legal peril that banks and other companies continue to face over the use of automated phone calls for debt collection and other purposes. ... Read full article
Discover's finance chief to retire next year
Mark Graf, who joined the Riverwoods, Ill.-based credit card issuer in 2011, will participate in the search for his successor. ... Read full article
High rates alone won't make direct banks' customers happy, study says
J.D. Power found that customers who have a variety of accounts with an online-only bank are far more satisfied than those with just checking or savings accounts. ... Read full article
Discover's rewards push pays off — at a steep cost
Discover leaned heavily on rewards to drive new card acquisitions and sales growth in the fourth quarter, but suffered a double whammy of rising reward costs and higher charge-offs, causing it to miss analyst earnings expectations. ... Read full article
Who won, who lost in Supreme Court’s credit card ruling
American Express prevailed Monday in an eight-year antitrust battle with the government. Here’s a look at how other card networks, banks, retailers and consumers will be affected. ... Read full article
Amex joins major card brands dropping signature requirement
American Express is falling in line with Mastercard and Discover in eliminating the signature requirement for authorization on all card transactions at the point of sale, starting in April of 2018. ... Read full article
