Discover Financial Services (DFS)

68.00 +1.84 (+2.78%) At close: 4:00PM EDT

Discover Financial Services

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

Sector(s): Financial Services
Industry: Credit Services
Full Time Employees: 17,200

Key Executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year Born
Mr. Roger Crosby Hochschild	CEO, Pres & Director	2.7M	N/A	1965
Mr. John Thomas Greene	Exec. VP & CFO	931.37k	N/A	1966
Ms. Wanjiku Juanita Walcott	Exec. VP, Chief Legal Officer & Gen. Counsel	3.9M	N/A	1971
Ms. Diane E. Offereins	Exec. VP & Pres of Payment Services	1.73M	N/A	1958
Ms. Julie A. Loeger	Exec. VP & Pres of US Cards	1.69M	N/A	1964
Mr. Edward W. McGrogan	Chief Accounting Officer, Sr. VP & Controller	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Amir S. Arooni	Exec. VP & Chief Information Officer	N/A	N/A	1965
Mr. R. Andrew Eichfeld	Exec. VP and Chief HR & Admin. Officer	N/A	N/A	1970
Mr. Craig A. Streem	VP of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	1950
Ms. Leslie Sutton	VP of Corp. Communications	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of December 31, 2019 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay is salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

Discover Financial Services, through its subsidiaries, operates as a direct banking and payment services company in the United States. It operates through two segments, Direct Banking and Payment Services. The Direct Banking segment offers Discover-branded credit cards to individuals; and other consumer products and services, including private student loans, personal loans, home equity loans, and other consumer lending, as well as deposit products, such as certificates of deposit, money market accounts, savings accounts, checking accounts, and individual retirement arrangement certificates of deposit. The Payment Services segment operates the PULSE network, an automated teller machine, debit, and electronic funds transfer network; Diners Club International, a payments network that issues Diners Club branded charge cards and provides card acceptance services; and Discover Network that processes transactions for Discover-branded credit and debit cards, as well as provides 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 October 6, 2020 is 5. The pillar scores are Audit: 1; Board: 6; Shareholder Rights: 4; Compensation: 8.

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 a 10 indicates higher governance risk.