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Discover Financial Services acquisitions, on the record
The businesses Discover Financial Services bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.
Deals its annual reports describe
| Business | Deal | When | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
Goldfish Credit Card BusinessWord for word“Agreement for the Sale and Purchase of the Goldfish Credit Card Business, dated February 7, 2008, among Discover Financial Services, Goldfish Bank Limited, Discover Bank, SCFC Receivables Corporation, and Barclays Bank Plc” 10-K for 2022 | agreed acquisition | February 7, 2008 | — |
The Student Loan CorporationWord for word“Agreement and Plan of Merger by and among Discover Bank, Academy Acquisition Corp. and The Student Loan Corporation dated as of September 17, 2010” 10-K for 2022 | merger | September 17, 2010 | — |
Diners Club network and related assetsWord for word“We continue to make progress toward, but have not completed, achieving global card acceptance for the Discover Global Network since we acquired the Diners Club network and related assets in 2008.” 10-K for 2022 | acquisition | 2008 | — |
PULSEWord for word“The Company’s reported goodwill relates to PULSE, which it acquired in 2005.” 10-K for 2022 | acquisition | 2005 | — |
private student loan portfolioWord for word“On November 29, 2023, we announced our Board of Directors had authorized management to explore the sale of our private student loan portfolio.” 10-K for 2023 | agreed divestiture | — | — |
Deal filings since 2016
- 2025-05-19 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
- 2024-07-17 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
- 2024-02-22 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Read from Discover Financial Services’s annual reports (10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023, 10-K for 2022) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2025-02-20. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.