Current：Home > NewsWhy Capital One wants Discover -FinanceMind
Why Capital One wants Discover
View
Date：2025-04-18 23:17:50
Capital One Financial Corporation plans to acquire Discover Financial Services in a $35 billion deal that would combine two of the largest U.S. credit card companies. Today on the show, five big questions about the deal, and the opaque system behind every swipe, tap or insertion of your credit card.
Related:
Planet Money's TikTok on the secret behind credit card rewards
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.
veryGood！ (68)
Related
- How to watch new prequel series 'Dexter: Original Sin': Premiere date, cast, streaming
- What is a detox? Here's why you may want to think twice before trying one.
- Opinion: KhaDarel Hodge is perfect hero for Falcons in another odds-defying finish
- Texas high school football players beat opponent with belts after 77-0 victory
- Nevada attorney general revives 2020 fake electors case
- How Gigi Hadid, Brody Jenner, Erin Foster and Katharine McPhee Share the Same Family Tree
- Mormon church leaders encourage civility as Trump and Harris rally religious voters
- How Trump credits an immigration chart for saving his life and what the graphic is missing
- Residents worried after ceiling cracks appear following reroofing works at Jalan Tenaga HDB blocks
- Maryland cancels debt for parole release, drug testing fees
Ranking
- The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
- Wounded California officer fatally shoots man during ‘unprovoked’ knife attack
- Ruby Franke's Daughter Slams Trash Lifetime Movie About Her Family
- 'Joker: Folie à Deux' ending: Who dies? Who walks? Who gets the last laugh?
- Taylor Swift Eras Archive site launches on singer's 35th birthday. What is it?
- Contractors hired to replace Newark’s lead pipes charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud
- Retired New Jersey State Police trooper who stormed Capitol is sentenced to probation
- Regulators investigate possible braking error in over 360,000 Ford crossover SUVs
Recommendation
'Most Whopper
Maryland cancels debt for parole release, drug testing fees
For small cities across Alabama with Haitian populations, Springfield is a cautionary tale
Nick Saban teases Marshawn Lynch about Seahawks pass on 1-yard line in Super Bowl 49
'As foretold in the prophecy': Elon Musk and internet react as Tesla stock hits $420 all
Contractors hired to replace Newark’s lead pipes charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud
Why Tom Selleck Was Frustrated Amid Blue Bloods Coming to an End
Officer who killed Daunte Wright is taking her story on the road with help from a former prosecutor