341 results about this entity
Period: 12 Nov 2007 - 12 Jun 2025
News
The US Justice Department is set to settle an antitrust probe into card processing fees with Visa and MasterCard, according to the Wall Street Journal.
04 October 2010
American Express has launched Currency, a personal finance advice site for "young adults" that offers blogs on spending and saving from experts, money management-related courses and an iPhone app developed with Foursquare.
22 September 2010
American Express has nabbed Daniel Schulman from wireless operator Sprint Nextel to head up a new enterprise growth unit that will concentrate on expanding the firm's mobile and online payments services.
22 July 2010
The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is considering whether to take action over an exclusive deal between the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympic organisers and Visa which will prevent fans using other cards to buy tickets.
24 June 2010
Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay up to $41.4 million to MasterCard issuers in relation to the data breach that hit the processor in 2008.
20 May 2010
American Express has teamed up with UK private equity firm Permira to join the battle for the Royal Bank of Scotland's WorldPay payment processing business, according to the Financial Times.
17 May 2010
American Express has been ordered by the central bank of Italy to suspend the distribution of new credit cards after falling foul of regulations governing money laundering, usury, and transparency.
09 April 2010
Card companies, including MasterCard and Visa, have approached the US government about filing a WTO trade complaint against China for cutting them out of the country's fast-growing, $723 billion, payment processing market, according to Bloomberg.
26 March 2010
Heartland Payment Systems will pay up to $60 million to issuers of Visa-branded credit and debit cards affected by the data breach suffered at the New Jersey-based payments processor in 2008.
08 January 2010
Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to a $3.6 million settlement with American Express relating to the criminal breach of the New jersey-based payments processor in 2008.
18 December 2009
American Express has launched a new consulting division to provide businesses with data and analytics on consumer spending patterns.
19 November 2009
American Express is to acquire Revolution Money, a two-year old start-up founded with the express aim of emulating Paypal in online payments and circumventing plastic card interchange fees in the offline realm.
18 November 2009
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