Discover Financial Services

137 results about this entity

Period: 04 Oct 2004 - 10 Dec 2024

Discover joins US EMV bandwagon

Discover Financial Services has fallen in line behind larger rivals Visa and MasterCard, setting out a timetable for the US abandonment of mag-stripe cards in favour of EMV chip technology

Discover sponsors Farmville game expansion

Discover Financial Services is bidding to woo the kids this Christmas, signing on as sponsor for an expansion of the hugely popular FarmVille social game.

Google launches mobile wallet

Search engine giant Google has kicked off a new era in payments with the formal launch of its mobile wallet service and the announcement of new co-operation agreements with Visa, Discover and American Express.

China UnionPay overtakes Visa as world's biggest card scheme

China UnionPay has overtaken Visa as the world's largest payments card scheme, according to Retail Banking Research (RBR).

Isis sign card networks to NFC m-payments service

Isis, the contactless mobile payments venture set up by major US network operators has brought on board Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

Discover begins roll out of contactless cards and stickers

US card scheme Discover has begun issuing contactless credit cards and stickers, targeted at early adopters of mobile technology.

US telcos hire GE Capital's Abbott to lead contactless m-payments venture

US wireless firms AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have appointed GE Capital veteran Michael Abbott to head up a new contactless mobile payments joint venture.

PayPal unveils micropayments system; Facebook on board

PayPal has signed up a slew of big names, including Facebook and FT.com, to a new micropayments system for digital goods and services.

Heartland pays $5 million settlement to Discover over data breach

Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay up to $5 million to Discover Financial Services in relation to the data breach that hit the processor in 2008, marking its final settlement with all leading card brands over the intrusion.

Firethorn preps mobile gift card app

M-commerce specialist Firethorn is signing up retailers for the launch of a mobile gift card application called Swagg.

US telcos team on contactless m-payments venture - Bloomberg

US wireless firms AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have teamed up on a contactless mobile payments venture, according to Bloomberg.

Card firms press US to file WTO complaint on access to China - Bloomberg

Card companies, including MasterCard and Visa, have approached the US government about filing a WTO trade complaint against China for cutting them out of the country's fast-growing, $723 billion, payment processing market, according to Bloomberg.