Discover is considering a possible sale of its student-loan unit as it seeks to clean up operations in the wake of a series of regulatory lapses, Bloomberg’s Gillian Tan and Matthew Monks report, citing people familiar with the matter. The business could fetch interest from private equity firms or rival student-loan platforms, some of the people say.
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