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Australian Business Traveller
April 25, 2018
Have the American Express Platinum Charge Card? You can get a boost to Gold status in the Radisson Rewards program – formerly known as Club Carlson – giving you perks at Radisson, Radisson Blu, Radisson Collection, Radisson RED, Park Plaza, Park Inn and Country Inn hotels. Among thoseÃâà...
Australian Business Traveller
April 23, 2018
Westpac's next-gen American Express cards are now available for open application, following a soft launch in January exclusively by invitation for existing customers. Being issued directly by American Express Australia instead of Westpac, these cards aren't subject to the same crippling 'interchange fee'Ãâà...
MarketWatch
April 16, 2018
The company AXP, -1.94% announced a new card this week, the Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) American Express Luxury Card. The card is aimed at American Express's “most premium and often-traveling, globetrotting” customers, said Courtney Kelso, senior vice president of U.S. commercial cards atÃâà...
PaymentsJournal
April 13, 2018
Delta said American Express secured more than a million new accounts for their joint credit card last year, plus a record number in the first quarter that gave the airline a sales boost through payments the company receives for frequent flier miles. Delta generated $3 billion in revenue from the card last year.
Quartz
April 11, 2018
Windows did it in 2012. Apple, Google, Pepsi, Facebook, and countless other brands have followed. More and more companies today are simplifying their logos in the interest of screen legibility. American Express is the latest corporation to expunge gradients and graphic flourishes from its corporateÃâà...
Nasdaq
March 17, 2018
The American Express Co. AXP is likely to get a breather from the senate's recent decision to bring in a few amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act. Regulations and policies extensively control the company, TRS and its U.S. bank subsidiaries, American Express Centurion Bank (Centurion Bank) and AmericanÃâà...
PaymentsJournal
March 17, 2018
An article in Coindesk reports that American Express has filed for a patent on a payment process involving blockchain. What is interesting about the analysis of this patent, beyond the use of blockchain, is the payment process that is described. American Express has developed (at least on paper) theÃâà...
PYMNTS.com
March 16, 2018
A press release on Thursday (March 15) said American Express Canada is integrating its American Express vPayments technology into the Conferma platform to automate the generation of single-use virtual cards to pay travel suppliers. Conferma's platform can integrate travel and payment data into existing systems usedÃâà...
CoinDesk
March 16, 2018
Global payment giant American Express may be looking into using blockchain to boost the speed of transactions. In a patent application released by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday, the credit card company's travel arm - the American Express Travel Related Services CompanyÃâà...
Motley Fool
March 9, 2018
Since losing Costco Wholesale's co-brand card business, American Express has focused on growing its loan portfolio through initiatives with existing customers and by increasing acceptance with merchants. In the company's 2017 third-quarter conference call, AmEx management stated that 50% of its loanÃâà...
PaymentsSource
December 31, 1999
A motivating speech from a female executive at the Ogilvy ad agency 15 years ago helped steer Denise Pickett to new heights at American Express. As did having a family willing to move to the U.S. from Canada. After 17 years with Amex in Canada, the company offered Pickett a position at its New YorkÃâà...
Black Enterprise
December 31, 1999
After dedicating over two decades of service to American Express (Amex), Sonia Cargan was recently promoted to chief diversity officer at the financial services giant. Amex announced Cargan's appointment on March 8, stating that she is now responsible for overseeing the company's global diversity andÃâà...