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Pivot Payables Joins American Express Sync™

Business Wire

"Pivot Payables Inc., a fintech company delivering corporate financial operations solutions, announced a new integration with American Express. The integration offers American Express® U.S. Business and Corporate Card Members the ability to generate virtual Cards within PivotLynx, Pivot Payables’ accounting automation application, ensuring requests are routed to managers for budget approval and cost accounting."

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American Express and Boost Payment Solutions Bring Optimized Virtual Card Payments to Suppliers

American Express

"As part of its ongoing investment in its B2B network and in enhancing buyer and supplier capabilities, American Express announced a new offering by Boost Payment Solutions, to provide commercial virtual Card processing services to U.S. merchants who accept American Express."

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American Express and Knot Team Up to Simplify Adding Card-on-File Payment Information

Business Wire

"American Express and Knot have teamed up to launch a new pilot feature that simplifies adding payment information at select merchants. The feature rolled out as a limited pilot for select American Express customers to enable them to seamlessly add their payment information for some of their favorite merchants, including Bloomingdale’s, Hilton and Macy’s, to enjoy a continued smooth checkout experience."

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UNIPaaS & American Express Boost B2B Card Payments for SMEs

IBS Intelligence

"UNIPaaS has partnered with American Express to enable more small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to offer invoice payments with Amex Cards through its platform"

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American Express Expands Footprint in Africa

American Express

"“We’re putting a lot of energy into Africa – investing in accelerating our growth and broadening payment choices for consumers and businesses across the continent,” said Mohammed Badi, President, Global Network Services (GNS).

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Flutterwave Enables its Online Merchants in Nigeria to Accept American Express Payments

PR Newswire

"Flutterwave, Africa's leading payments technology company, announced that its online merchants in Nigeria can now accept American Express payments. American Express Card Members - with consumer, business, or corporate cards - will be able to make payments directly to e-commerce businesses using Flutterwave in Nigeria."

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To Enhance Dining Platform, American Express Enters Agreement to Acquire Tock From Squarespace; Also Agrees to Acquire Rooam

American Express

"American Express announced an agreement to acquire Tock, a reservation, table, and event management technology provider, from Squarespace, the design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online."

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American Express Statement on eBay Acceptance

American Express

"We are disappointed that eBay made the decision to stop accepting American Express Cards as of August 17th, 2024."

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American Express and Emburse Bring Integrated Expense Management Solution to Commercial Customers

Morningstar

"American Express and Emburse are partnering to offer end-to-end virtual card issuance, card reconciliation, and expense management in Emburse Spend, an all-in-one expense management solution, to American Express customers."

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Agencies Announce Public Meeting on Proposed Acquisition by Capital One of Discover; Public Comment Period Extended

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

"The Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today announced a joint public meeting on the proposal by Capital One Financial Corporation, of McLean, Virginia, to acquire Discover Financial Services, of Riverwoods, Illinois...The purpose of the public meeting is to collect information from a wide range of stakeholders as the agencies evaluate the applications."

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American Express Sued in Merchants’ Class-Action Over ‘Swipe’ Fees

Reuters

"American Express has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit in Rhode Island federal court accusing it of overcharging thousands of U.S. merchants for credit and debit card fees on consumer transactions."

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American Express and American Express Global Business Travel Launch New Integration to Help Streamline Spend Management for Small Businesses

Business Wire

"American Express is making it possible for businesses to issue a virtual Card (a dynamic payment option that replaces a physical card number with a digital Card number) for their employees via Amex GBT Neo1, a spend management platform."

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NCR Atleos to Bring Surcharge-Free Cash Access to American Express Checking Customers

Business Wire

NCR Atleos Corporation announced that American Express has selected Atleos’ Allpoint ATM Network to expand surcharge-free access in the United States to its Business and Consumer Checking customers later this year.

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Fyle Announces Integration with American Express®

PR Newswire

"Fyle, an expense management platform that works with customers' existing credit cards, announced a new integration with American Express to offer U.S. Business and Corporate Card Members the ability to issue on-demand virtual Cards via the Fyle platform, with built-in controls, and enhanced security."

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Nuvei and American Express Join Forces to Facilitate Seamless Account-to-Account Payments Between Merchants and Their Customers

PR Newswire

"Pay with Bank transfer, powered by American Express, announces it has selected Nuvei Corporation, the Canadian fintech company, as its first acquirer authorised to promote and sell PwBt's Open Banking-enabled payment method."

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Thousands More Independent Retailers Accept Amex Following Partnership with Booker Group [UK]

Retail Times

"American Express has strengthened its partnership with Booker Group, meaning thousands more independent retailers nationwide will be able to accept American Express Card payments under a new agreement."

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American Express is First Card Issuer to Pilot Facial and Fingerprint Recognition for Safer Online Checkouts

americanexpress

"American Express® announced it is adding facial and fingerprint recognition to SafeKey® to help prevent fraud and create a simple and intuitive online checkout process. The company is the first card issuer to roll out these biometric features through a new pilot program."

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Amex Research: Small Businesses Shake Things Up to Win Customers and Boost Sales

American Express

"New research from American Express finds that a majority of small and medium sized businesses are keeping a laser focus on boosting sales in the period ahead, by ramping up marketing activity and investing in new products and services."

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Skipify & Amex Team Up to Elevate Shopper Experience at Checkout

PR Newswire

"Skipify, a fintech company redefining the checkout experience, has teamed up with American Express to connect Amex U.S. Consumer Members' Cards seamlessly into checkout. Skipify's technology, launching exclusively with American Express, identifies select Amex customers via their email address, enabling them to automatically link their eligible Amex Cards to check out with participating merchants."

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Goldman in Talks to Offload Apple Credit Card, Savings Products to American Express, Source Says

CNBC

"Goldman Sachs is in talks to offload its Apple credit card and high-yield savings account products to American Express, a source told CNBC’s Leslie Picker. Goldman Sachs and Apple declined to comment. CNBC has also reached out to American Express."

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American Express and Bluechain Announce Partnership to Streamline SME Payment Processes

Fintech Finance

"American Express today announces a new partnership with Request to Pay-focused fintech startup, Bluechain to help streamline the supplier payment process for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)."

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Amex Planning to Use AI for ‘Approving Cards and Lines of Credit’

Cointelegraph

"American Express plans to extend its AI capabilities through partnerships despite having experimented internally with numerous machine learning-powered services."

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American Express Launches First Card Bill PayID Service in Australia on the New Payments Platform

American Express

"In a market-leading move, American Express in partnership with payments provider Cuscal, today announces the launch of the first card bill PayID service in Australia on the New Payments Platform (NPP). American Express Card PayID gives consumer and small business Card Members a faster, simpler and more secure way to repay charges on their American Express Card, directly from their bank account...American Express has partnered with Cuscal and connected to their APIs, which will allow American Express Card Members to create a unique PayID that they can save as a payee in their bank’s digital banking channel. This means that when Card Members makes a payment from their bank to their PayID it is routed in real time to their American Express Card account via Cuscal, creating an instant and seamless payment and a better customer experience."

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Timpson, B&M & EG Group Partner with American Express as Growth of Its UK card Acceptance Accelerates

American Express

"American Express continues to grow its coverage in the UK with the signing of several leading businesses across the food-to-go, home improvement and wider retail sectors. Taken together, these merchant signings represent thousands of new places that now accept American Express, with the total number of UK locations growing by almost a third (30%) year-on-year. American Express Cardmembers can now use their card at renowned family-owned retailer Timpson across its portfolio of approximately 2,000 stores."

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American Express Launches New Cash Flow Management Hub, Expanding Its Powerful Backing for Small Businesses

Businesswire

American Express today announced the launch of American Express Business Blueprint^™, the company’s new digital cash flow management hub designed exclusively for small businesses, which features cash flow insights, digital financial products, and an easy way to reach and manage their Business Cards.

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American Express to Acquire B2B Payments Automation Company Nipendo

Businesswire

"American Express today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Nipendo, a company used by global businesses to automate and streamline business-to-business (B2B) payments processes. The transaction is American Express’ latest strategic step toward its goal of creating a leading end-to-end B2B platform, making business payments simpler and more efficient. American Express is building a broader suite of B2B capabilities for both buyers and suppliers through new product development, M&A and partnerships."

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American Express Opens Singapore Decision Science Center of Excellence

American Express

“American Express announced it has opened a new Decision Science Center of Excellence (CoE) in Singapore that will deliver global data-driven solutions. The CoE will focus on data science applications in the areas of credit and fraud risk model development and production using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP). “Singapore is a recognized world-leading financial and technology hub,” said Changbin Wang, Managing Director for the American Express Singapore Decision Science Center of Excellence, “Setting up a global innovation center in Singapore reflects our commitment to continue investing in this country, and we are confident the country’s exceptional and diverse talent will help fuel American Express’ next wave of innovation to better service our global Card Member base.” “American Express’ Decision Science CoE is an exciting addition to Singapore’s digital industry, presenting more opportunities for talent to apply cutting-edge research methods to solve global-scale and complex issues faced by the industry. We look forward to the exciting outcomes from the CoE which will in turn attract and groom global experts from Singapore,” said Philbert Gomez, Vice President and Head, Digital Industry Singapore (DISG). Over time, American Express is expected to expand the focus of the Center of Excellence to include cutting-edge research leading to the development of other AI, ML and NLP technology use cases to support the company’s growth aspirations.”

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American Express Launches Amex Business Link™, a New Digital B2B Payments Ecosystem for Network Participants

Businesswire

“American Express  announced Amex Business Link™, a new business-to-business (B2B) payments ecosystem for network issuing and acquiring participants to offer to their business customers. Amex Business Link makes managing payments easier for buyers and suppliers of all sizes by accepting card and non-card payments and supporting domestic and cross-border transactions. The new digital ecosystem is equipped with reporting and reconciliation tools and connects to all customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that use APIs… For buyers and suppliers, the solution provides: An easier and safer way to manage their payments and connect directly with other businesses through the ecosystem; Seamless connectivity to ERP/CRM systems via APIs; Multiple payment methods including card, ACH, wire, check, etc.; Purchases and sales insights that allow companies to monitor growth; Access to dynamic reports that allow automatic reconciliation.”

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American Express and Square Partner to Create First Credit Card for Square Sellers

Businesswire

“American Express and Square announced an expansion of their relationship and plans to launch a new credit card built specifically for Square sellers on the American Express network. The new card will be the first credit card Square offers to its community of small business owners in the U.S. It will integrate directly with Square’s broader ecosystem of solutions, empowering sellers to organize their finances and manage their cash flow from the same platform they use to run their business.”

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WebBank Collaborates with American Express to Expand Credit Card Issuing

American Express

“Alliance will focus on offering payment products on the American Express network through fintechs – WebBank announced today an agreement with American Express to become a card issuer and participant in the American Express network. The collaboration allows WebBank to issue credit card and payment solutions that include American Express benefits. American Express selected WebBank as one of its key issuing banks focused on the fintech industry.”

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