341 results about this entity
Period: 12 Nov 2007 - 12 Jun 2025
News
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.
18 January 2012
Following an Office of Fair Trading probe, British banks have agreed to ditch some of the fees they charge people for buying foreign currency.
20 December 2011
Credit card giant American Express has set up a $100 million fund to invest in digital commerce startups.
08 November 2011
American Express has filed a patent for a system and method for using loyalty rewards as a currency.
01 November 2011
American Express is teaming with Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings on cross-border online payments.
28 September 2011
American Express has acquired Sometrics, a virtual currency outfit targeting the online games community, for $30 million, according to TechCrunch.
21 September 2011
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.
19 September 2011
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.
09 September 2011
China UnionPay has overtaken Visa as the world's largest payments card scheme, according to Retail Banking Research (RBR).
12 August 2011
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.
10 August 2011
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.
01 August 2011
Isis, the contactless mobile payments venture set up by major US network operators has brought on board Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.
20 July 2011
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