Discover Financial Services announced that Kathy ?Moe? Lonowski has been appointed to the Boards of Directors of Discover Financial Services and its subsidiary, Discover Bank, effective immediately. She will serve on the Boards?

Risk Oversight Committee. Moe has 38 years of bank regulatory experience, including with prudential oversight of some of the largest financial institutions in the U.S. She recently retired as Regional Director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), San Francisco Region, a role she held since 2016. As Director of the San Francisco Region, the FDIC?s largest in terms of Gross Domestic Product, Moe evaluated the operations of 350 insured financial institutions and led the risk management and consumer protection divisions covering 11 western states.

She also supported the management of examination and legal risk-related technical issues and assessed solutions related to potential enforcement actions and civil money penalties. Prior to her role as Regional Director for the San Francisco Region, Moe served as an FDIC Deputy Regional Director, Risk Management Supervision, and Field Supervisor, Risk Management Supervision.