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 consumers through Synchrony Bank, its wholly owned online bank subsidiary.

Brands partnered with Synchrony include Amazon, Lowe's, Guitar Center, Cathay Pacific, Rakuten, Verizon, Sleep Number, Walgreens, and Sam's Club. Synchrony owns CareCredit, a credit card for medical and veterinary expenses.

Previously named GE Capital Retail Finance Corporation, Synchrony was incorporated in Delaware in 2003. The company was inactive until 2013. Centered on co-branded credit products, Synchrony went public in July 2014 and raised $2.88 billion in its initial public offering.

In 2017, Synchrony acquired GPShopper.

In 2018, Synchrony acquired Loop Commerce, which provides a digital gifting platform called GiftNow. The same year, it acquired PayPal's $7.6 billion credit receivables portfolio and became the exclusive issuer for the PayPal Credit point-of-sale financing program in the United States through 2028.

GIC Private Limited, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore, owned 7.72% of Synchrony's stock in 2019. GIC exited its position in 2023.

In 2016, the University of Connecticut's School of Engineering announced the launch of Synchrony's Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity.

In 2018, Synchrony opened an emerging tech center at the University of Illinois.