Riverwoods Business
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Discover Zip offers Discover cardmembers more speed, convenienceNov 28, 2010 10:00 pm - Riverwoods-based Discover card today announced that it has begun issuing Discover Zip contactless credit cards and stickers, targeted at early adopters of its mobile tec...
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Survey shows encouraging signs for retailersNov 22, 2010 10:00 pm - The number of shoppers who say they expect to spend less this holiday season has fallen 10 percent from this time last year, according to early data from the Discover U...
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Discover involved in purchase-by-mobile-phone projectNov 15, 2010 10:00 pm - AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile carriers, hired former General Electric Co. executive Michael J. Abbott to head a venture that would let people m...
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PAVE aims to keep high school students safe while drivingOct 25, 2010 11:00 pm - Jenifer Weber, a senior at Fremd High School, joins her classmates every Thursday morning in the school parking lot, where they start their day giving candy to random st...
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“Discover” signs deal with First National Bank AlaskaOct 12, 2010 11:00 pm - RIVERWOODS Discover Financial Services said today that it has signed a merchant acquirer agreement with First National Bank Alaska. This agreement enables First Nationa...
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Discover: Antitrust suit won't help consumersOct 06, 2010 11:00 pm - U.S. consumers aren't likely to benefit from an antitrust settlement that lets merchants offer rewards and incentives to people who pay with lower-cost credit cards, acc...
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Citigroup's Student Loan sued over Discover offerSep 20, 2010 11:00 pm - Citigroup Inc.'s Student Loan Corp. was sued by a shareholder who contends he will be shortchanged in a planned $600 million acquisition by Discover Financial Services. ...
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Discover profit falls due to year-ago settlementSep 19, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Increased use of its credit cards and improved customer payment habits helped lift Discover Financial Services Co.'s fiscal third-quarter results, the compan...
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Discover to buy Citigroup student loan businessSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - BOSTON -- Citigroup Inc. said Friday it is selling its student loan business and about $32 billion in related assets to Riverwoods-based Discover Financial Services and ...
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Discover to sell $500 million of bonds backed by credit cardsSep 12, 2010 11:00 pm - Discover Financial Services plans to sell $500 million of bonds backed by credit-card payments, according to a person familiar with the offering who declined to be ident...