On Thursday, Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS)’s shares declined -0.75% to $51.45.
Discover received honors in four categories at the 2015 Call Center Week Excellence Awards Conference and Expo presented by the International Quality & Productivity Center.
For the second successive year, Discover won first place in the Best Training and Development Program award, which honors companies that integrate learning and development into short- and long-term aims. Additionally, Discover was named the top winner in the Best Marketing Team that Supports CS category, which recognizes companies that are creating personalized, meaningful customer experiences that meet or exceed the company’s expectations. Discover was runner up for Best Use of Voice of the Customer and Best IT team categories.
Winners were declared at the 16th Annual Call Center Week Conference and Expo in Las Vegas. Call Center Week Excellence Awards honor the most innovative call center solutions and individuals over the past year.
Discover Financial Services (DFS) is a direct banking and payment services company. The Company is a bank holding company, as well as a financial holding company. The Company provides direct banking products and services and payment services through its subsidiaries. The Company manages its business activities in two segments: Direct Banking and Payment Services.
NextEra Energy Inc (NYSE:NEE)’s shares gained 0.56% to $97.52.
Florida Power & Light Company, a wholly owned partner of NextEra Energy, declared recently the determination of the pricing of its formerly declared tender offer (the “Tender Offer”) to purchase up to an aggregate principal amount of $400 million (the “Maximum Tender Amount”) of its First Mortgage Bonds, 5.85% Series due Feb. 1, 2033 (CUSIP No. 341081EP8) (the “2033 Bonds”), its First Mortgage Bonds, 5.95% Series due Oct. 1, 2033 (CUSIP No. 341081ER4) (the “2033A Bonds”), its First Mortgage Bonds, 6.20% Series due June 1, 2036 (CUSIP No. 341081EX1) (the “2036 Bonds”), its First Mortgage Bonds, 5-5/8% Series due April 1, 2034 (CUSIP No. 341081EQ6) (the “2034 Bonds”), its First Mortgage Bonds, 5.65% Series due Feb. 1, 2035 (CUSIP No. 341081ES2) (the “2035 Bonds”), its First Mortgage Bonds, 5.40% Series due Sept. 1, 2035 (CUSIP No. 341081EU7) (the “2035A Bonds”), its First Mortgage Bonds, 5.85% Series due May 1, 2037 (CUSIP No. 341081EY9) (the “2037 Bonds”), its First Mortgage Bonds, 5.65% Series due Feb. 1, 2037 (CUSIP No. 341081EV5) (the “2037A Bonds”), its First Mortgage Bonds, 5.95% Series due Feb. 1, 2038 (CUSIP No. 341081FA0) (the “2038 Bonds”) and its First Mortgage Bonds, 5.96% Series due April 1, 2039 (CUSIP No. 341081FB8) (the “2039 Bonds”). The 2033 Bonds, the 2033A Bonds, the 2036 Bonds, the 2034 Bonds, the 2035 Bonds, the 2035A Bonds, the 2037 Bonds, the 2037A Bonds, the 2038 Bonds and the 2039 Bonds are referred to herein collectively as the “Securities.” The Tender Offer is open to all holders (individually, a “Holder,” collectively, the “Holders”) of the Securities.
NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE) is a holding company. The Company operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (NEER). It is an electric power company in North America with electric generating facilities located in 27 states in the United States and four provinces in Canada. Its segments are FPL and NEER.
BB&T Corporation (NYSE:BBT), ended its Thursday’s trading session with -0.48% loss, and closed at $35.06.
BB&T Corporation (BBT), declared that H. Wade Reece, chairman and CEO of BB&T Insurance Holdings Inc., will retire effective Dec. 31, 2015.
Reece completes an illustrious 37-year career with BB&T in which BB&T Insurance Holdings has grown to be the fifth largest insurance broker in the U.S. and the sixth largest in the world with more than $1.7 billion in revenue in 2014.
A Boonville, N.C., native, Reece graduated from North Carolina State University in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics. He joined the BB&T Administration Development Program that same year, and after concluding the intensive training, served on the banking side of BB&T as city executive for Wallace, Lexington, Fayetteville and city executive and area manager for Gastonia, N.C. But, Reece found his niche at the helm of BB&T Insurance Services in Raleigh, N.C.
BB&T Corporation (BB&T) is a financial holding company. The Company conducts its business operations primarily through its bank subsidiary, Branch Bank, and other nonbank subsidiaries. BB&T’s operations are divided into six reportable business segments: Community Banking, Residential Mortgage Banking, Dealer Financial Services, Specialized Lending, Insurance Services and Financial Services, and Other, Treasury and Corporate.
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