Formerly GE Capital Retail Finance, Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) is a consumer financial services companies and the largest provider of private label credit cards in the United States based on purchase volume and receivables. Synchrony provides a range of credit products through established relationships with national and regional retailers, local merchants, manufacturers, buying groups, industry associations and healthcare service providers. Through 300,000 locations across the United States and Canada, and their websites and mobile applications, Synchrony Financial partners offer customers a variety of credit products to finance the purchase of goods and services including private label credit cards, promotional financing and installment lending, loyalty programs and Optimizer+plus branded FDIC-insured savings products through Synchrony Bank.
Darius Carlos Rucker (born Darius Carlos Rucker on May 13, 1966) is an American singer and songwriter. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning American rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim "Soni" Sonefeld, and Dean Felber. The band has released five studio albums with him as a member, and charted six top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Rucker co-wrote the majority of the band's songs with the other three members.