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Synchrony Financial is an American consumer financial services company with its headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. The company offers consumer financing products, including credit, promotional financing and loyalty programs, installment lending to industries, and FDIC-insured consumer savings products, through Synchrony Bank, its wholly owned online bank subsidiary.
United States. Before June 2, 2014, GE Capital Bank was made up of retail and commercial banks. The company was founded in 1988 and is based in Draper, Utah. GE Capital Retail Bank provided retail banking and credit services to consumers in the United States and internationally.
One of the first female CEOs of a multibillion dollar bank. Margaret Keane (born 1959) was the chief executive officer of Synchrony from February 2014 through April 2021. She transitioned to the role of executive chair of Synchrony’s board of directors. Brian Doubles, formerly Synchrony’s president, became chief executive officer. [1]
However, a few years ago, Synchrony Bank was moved over to Synchrony Financial, a financial services company. It separated from GE in 2015. That means it's now a separate financial institution.
GE was a major provider of computer time-sharing services, through General Electric Information Services (GEIS, now GXS), offering online computing services that included GEnie. In 2000, when United Technologies Corp. planned to buy Honeywell, GE made a counter-offer that was approved by Honeywell.
That will leave GE Aerospace as the final piece of the old empire. “For 2023, GE posted the largest share appreciation of any U.S. industrial, clocking a gain of 95.8%, including value of the GE ...
1912. General Electric begins using phenolic resins to mold plastic parts [5] 1913. Charles A. Coffin becomes the first Chairman of General Electric. 1913. Edwin Rice becomes President, replacing Charles A. Coffin. 1917. General Electric acquires synchronous electric clock manufacturer Telechron. 1918.
In 1977 Welch was named senior vice president and head of Consumer Products and Services Division, a position he held until 1979 when he became the vice chairman of GE. In 1981, Welch became GE's youngest chairman and CEO, succeeding Reginald H. Jones. By 1982, Welch had dismantled much of the earlier management put together by Jones with ...