American Express

Mobile payment solution providers and issuers may now use Global to ensure ExpressPay HCE apps are performing in line with Amex’s specifications.

India's latest government-supported payments initiative, Bharat QR, officially launched on Monday, aiming to provide an interoperable mobile payments platform linking small merchants and consumers across channels via several major card payment networks.

Certain cash-strapped consumers expecting a tax refund this year will be waiting longer than usual to get their funds because of a new IRS rule, prompting American Express Co. to expand the channels available to taxpayers looking to get their refund quickly through its Serve prepaid card.

American Express has signed on to the Hyperledger Project, a industry group of more than 100 members developing blockchain technology for corporate use.

The initiative pushes open and collaborative development of uses cases for the distributed ledger technology in financial services and payments.

American Express spend a record amount of marketing and promotions in 2016, following Costco's departure.

American Express Co., the largest U.S. credit-card issuer by purchases, said fourth-quarter profit fell 8.2 percent as expenses exceeded analysts’ estimates and the firm set aside more money to cover bad loans.

American Express has prevailed in its latest round of legal sparring with the Justice Department.

American Express Co. hopes to add star power to its high-end Platinum credit card by bringing musician and style icon Pharrell Williams in as the brand’s first-ever creative director, as competition in the luxury credit card segment intensifies.

In expanding its work with Facebook, American Express has introduced the Add a Card feature on its bot for Facebook Messenger.