American Express

The American Express Company, also known as Amex, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center in New York City. The company was founded in 1850 and is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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Amex Exec Says Mobile Payments A Failure
Amex Exec Says Mobile Payments A Failure
September 09, 2014  |  Mobile Commerce

On the eve of Apple’s unveiling of its new iPhone-based payment system, a top executive at American Express said that, so far, efforts to get...

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Apple To Get Rebates From Issuers on Fees
Apple To Get Rebates From Issuers on Fees
September 05, 2014  |  Controversial

Apple has reportedly negotiated deals with several leading issuers to extend card present rates to Apple for all transactions involving their cards with Apple’s new...

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Amex, Visa Cut Apple Mobile Payment Deal
Amex, Visa Cut Apple Mobile Payment Deal
September 02, 2014  |  Mobile

At its launch next Tuesday (Sept. 9), Apple may be able to announce the final elements needed for it to truly leverage the hundreds of...

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AmEx And Discover Top JD Power Payment Card Survey
AmEx And Discover Top JD Power Payment Card Survey
August 29, 2014  |  Loyalty & Rewards

American Express and Discover tied for the top spot in J.D. Power’s annual U.S. Credit Card Satisfaction Study, American Banker reported on Thursday (Aug. 28)....

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AmEx Agrees To Pay Millions For Unauthorized Interest Hike
AmEx Agrees To Pay Millions For Unauthorized Interest Hike
August 25, 2014  |  News

American Express will pay between $4 million and $6 million to settle claims that it increased consumers’ fixed-interest rates to a higher, variable rate without...

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Amex’s Exclusivity Rule Doesn’t Impact Merchant Fees, Economist Testifies
Amex’s Exclusivity Rule Doesn’t Impact Merchant Fees, Economist Testifies
August 19, 2014  |  News

The government’s anti-trust case against American Express is predicated on a straight-forward concept: retail card fees would drop if Amex abandoned its exclusivity strategy. An...

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PYMNTS Talks Back: What Apple Did And Didn’t Say at the WWDC, Why SMBs May Be Dumping EMV … and more
PYMNTS Talks Back: What Apple Did And Didn’t Say at the WWDC, Why SMBs May...
June 07, 2014  |  Cool

Apple’s WWDC showing sort of got PYMNTS people talking about Karen Webster’s piece on Apple’s potential mobile payments ambitions. So did reports that small merchants...

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The Quest For The $4 Trillion B2B Holy Grail
The Quest For The $4 Trillion B2B Holy Grail
June 03, 2014  |  B2B Payments

U.S. small businesses today spend a combined $4 trillion on expenses necessary to keep their companies operating, most of which is spent via checks. And...

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Fraud Report Compares Payment Options
Fraud Report Compares Payment Options
May 29, 2014  |  Company Spotlight

An inaugural quarterly fraud-index report from online-payments provider 2Checkout identifies Discover and Diners Club credit cards as experiencing the most amounts of fraud and Acculynk...

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