{"id":334,"date":"2008-04-09T09:12:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T14:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merchantaccountblog.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2008-04-09T09:12:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T14:12:36","slug":"discover-to-buy-diners-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/334\/discover-to-buy-diners-club","title":{"rendered":"Discover to Buy Diners Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discover just signed an agreement with Citi to acquire Diner Club for $165M. Diners club is all but extinct, but this merger may bring some hope into Diners Club&#8217;s future. Since Discover is now settled along with Visa and MasterCard it&#8217;s possible that we will see the ability to accept Diners Club cards pushed to all businesses that currently process credit cards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Press Release:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/investorrelations.discoverfinancial.com\/phoenix.zhtml?c=204177&#038;p=irol-newsArticle&#038;ID=1126183\">Discover Financial Services to Acquire Diners Club International Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover just signed an agreement with Citi to acquire Diner Club for $165M. Diners club is all but extinct, but this merger may bring some hope into Diners Club&#8217;s future. Since Discover is now settled along with Visa and MasterCard it&#8217;s possible that we will see the ability to accept Diners Club cards pushed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}