American Express

341 results about this entity

Period: 12 Nov 2007 - 12 Jun 2025

Amex licenses Serve to China's Lianlian

American Express has licensed its Serve digital wallet platform to Chinese mobile top-up provider Lianlian Group and made a $125 million equity investment in the firm's overseas unit.

UK banks scrap currency fees

Following an Office of Fair Trading probe, British banks have agreed to ditch some of the fees they charge people for buying foreign currency.

Amex earmarks $100m for investment in digital commerce startups

Credit card giant American Express has set up a $100 million fund to invest in digital commerce startups.

American Express files virtual currency patent

American Express has filed a patent for a system and method for using loyalty rewards as a currency.

Amex partners China's Tencent on e-payments

American Express is teaming with Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings on cross-border online payments.

Amex buys virtual currency firm Sometrics

American Express has acquired Sometrics, a virtual currency outfit targeting the online games community, for $30 million, according to TechCrunch.

Google launches mobile wallet

Search engine giant Google has kicked off a new era in payments with the formal launch of its mobile wallet service and the announcement of new co-operation agreements with Visa, Discover and American Express.

Amex taps Twitter and Facebook for charitable giving; inspires stream of invective

American Express has launched a UK charity campaign, pledging 50 pence to the Prince's Trust every time someone shares on Twitter or Facebook something that inspires them.

China UnionPay overtakes Visa as world's biggest card scheme

China UnionPay has overtaken Visa as the world's largest payments card scheme, according to Retail Banking Research (RBR).

Americans trust Visa over Apple for m-payments

Technology firms looking to take a slice of the mobile payments pie, such as Apple and Google, still have a long way to go before Americans trust them as much as more traditional players like Visa, according to a survey from Ogilvy & Mather.

Amex notches second carrier tie-up for Serve m-payments platform

American Express has chalked up another US carrier partner for its Serve digital wallet platform, with Verizon following last month's inaugural link-up with Sprint.

Isis sign card networks to NFC m-payments service

Isis, the contactless mobile payments venture set up by major US network operators has brought on board Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.