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American Express (AmEx) has debuted its Flexible Payment Option (FPO) for small businesses. The new offering, announced in a Thursday (Feb. 5) news release emailed to PYMNTS, is aimed at giving businesses ...

Consumer spending among millennials and Generation Z is not merely holding up. It’s underwriting earnings growth across financial services and retail, while pulling daily financial life deeper into mobile channels. Gen ...

American Express released its latest earnings results on Friday (Jan. 30), closing 2025 with a familiar refrain and as it claimed a demographic edge in card spending: younger card members ...

Speaking at a recent financial conference, American Express’ CEO offered a blunt opinion on surcharges. “Our card members should not be discriminated against,” Steve Squeri said at the Goldman Sachs U.S. Financial ...

Consumer retail spending from the week before Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday (Dec. 1) was up 9% year over year, American Express Chairman and CEO Stephen J. Squeri said Wednesday (Dec. ...

 Visa — Sam Hamilton, Head of AI and Data In January, Hamilton was prescient about artificial intelligence (AI). He laid out just how pervasive he expects Gen AI to be across ...

For much of its history, healthcare has presented a unique contrast in digital progress. While the sector leads in medical technology, healthcare billing and payments have frequently been slower to ...

For business travel, disruption has become a default setting. The combination of supply chain stress, hybrid work, demand volatility and shifting traveler expectations has transformed corporate mobility from a routine cost ...

American Express is expanding its 18-month-old partnership with travel and expense software provider Emburse. The expansion resulted in the addition of two new features, including American Express virtual card issuance and ...

Earnings season so far suggests that U.S. consumers still have a willingness and capacity to spend, even amid persistent economic uncertainty. Credit and debit cards remain the tools of choice ...

American Express posted third-quarter earnings results Friday (Oct. 17) that indicated strong growth in card spending, particularly among consumers in the Generation Z and millennial cohorts. During a conference call with ...

Even as artificial intelligence reshapes corporate finance and payments move in real time, one of the oldest habits in business continues to delay billions in payments. Paper and manual based friction, ...

Watch more: Trend Talk: American Express, Pavan Krishna New business norms require modes of thinking that aren’t just the same old, same old. Today, innovation across accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable ...

American Express has introduced a digital advertising platform dubbed Amex Ads. Announced Monday (Oct. 6) the platform is designed to let brands connect with the company’s 34 million consumer card members ...

Late payments and cash flow unpredictability remain among the most pressing challenges for businesses, with nearly half of B2B invoices in North America still paid late. The latest PYMNTS Intelligence ...

Payments and credit card service organizations have always been measured by their ability to reduce friction. Contact center average handle time, dispute resolution speed, and fraud detection accuracy are all ...

Watch more: Need to Know: American Express, Raymond Joabar Premium cards and premium customers are in demand these days. American Express is raising the stakes for this demographic with a sweeping ...

American Express and UPS are launching offers aimed at helping small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). “UPS and American Express have both been trusted for over a century. Bringing our expertise together creates a powerful ...

American Express is teaming with restaurant management software company Toast on a multi-year, hospitality-focused partnership. The collaboration, announced Tuesday (Aug. 5), is aimed at promoting more personalized dining experiences at restaurants using ...

American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) said Tuesday (July 29) that the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissed its antitrust lawsuit challenging the company’s acquisition of global business travel and ...

Navan announced Tuesday (July 29) that it has partnered with American Express to offer unique virtual card numbers with embedded expense controls for U.S. business and corporate cards. When travelers make ...

Citigroup has entered the luxury card market with its new premium credit card. As Bloomberg News noted in a report on the launch Sunday (July 27), Citi’s Strata Elite places it ...

American Express isn’t waiting for the economy to make up its mind. It’s already betting cardholders will keep spending even as headlines wobble from “soft landing” to “hard stop.” That bet ...

Chase has introduced substantial changes to its Chase Sapphire Reserve card, its premium travel card. Due to go into effect June 23, the updated card offers users $2,700 in yearly benefits, ...

American Express is readying what it says is its largest-ever investment in updating its cards. The company announced Monday (June 16) that it was planning a “refresh” to its U.S. consumer and business Platinum ...

Businesses wrestling with sluggish cash flow and escalating fraud are increasingly looking to digital payment solutions, according to a recent PYMNTS Intelligence report highlighting the challenges of legacy methods. The report, ...

Lithic has expanded its card issuing platform to enable FinTechs operating in the United States to issue cards on the American Express network. This addition unlocks a new network option for ...

Through the past few weeks, bank earnings and American Express’ latest results point to a commercial lending environment where demand is muted in real estate, stronger in other sectors — ...

The CE 100 Index barely budged in a holiday-shortened trading week, down 0.2%.  Earnings continued to dominate the headlines, and six pillars were lower, while five gained marginal ground. United Healthcare ...

U.S. reciprocal tariffs have upended global trade. Once fluid supply chains are now tangled with complexity, and the ripple effects are being felt across every corner of the business world, from ...

The four financial services companies that reported results Thursday (April 18) — KeyCorp, Truist, American Express and Fifth Third Bancorp — faced investors against a backdrop of fresh tariff headlines, stubborn ...

If the general attitude of global business is based on economic uncertainty, American Express (Amex) never got that email. The company is greeting the balance of 2025 with optimism, even as ...

Inefficiency in healthcare is more than just inconvenient. It can often be expensive. Yet in today’s world, where tap-to-pay is routine at coffee shops and digital identities help authenticate purchases in ...

Visa reportedly offered Apple about $100 million to get the tech giant’s credit card business, which is held by Mastercard. The offer came as the payment network and rival American Express ...

American Express is set to purchase expense management software firm Center. The deal is aimed at helping American Express (Amex) bolster its services for small businesses, according to a Thursday (March ...

In a world where so much is tailored to individual preferences, consumers have come to expect the same level of customization in retail. A survey conducted by American Express showed that ...

The FinTech IPO Index was awash in a sea of red this past week, with nary a positive showing to be found. Earnings were met, by and large, with dissatisfaction, ...

To say that Wednesday (Feb. 26) was a busy news evening for Marqeta would be an understatement. After the markets closed, the card issuing platform named Mike Milotich as interim CEO, ...

American Express Global Business Travel, which is operated by Global Business Travel Group (GBT), said Tuesday (Feb. 18) that updated provisional conclusions announced by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority ...

It’s a new year, and that means it’s a new quarter. One that could signal a new era of digital transformation for B2B payments. Across earnings calls and investor discussions, executives ...

The debut of the new presidential administration, the prospect of AI-friendly regulations and related infrastructure investments — and a planned investment of up to $500 billion into Stargate, a new ...

Young consumers are keeping credit card spending buoyant, especially for American Express, which saw millennials and members of Generation Z increase their spending by double digits year over year in ...

American Express said Thursday (Jan. 16) that it expects to pay $230 million to settle previously disclosed investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Reserve. The company entered ...

The stock market offers a snapshot, at any given time, of investor sentiment, which is driven by the fundamentals of companies, sectors and the economy as a whole. The read across ...

The corporate road warrior may log many a mile in 2025. The pandemic is but a memory; the face-to-face meeting, the conventions, the trade shows and meet-ups with vendors and suppliers ...