337 results about this entity
Period: 12 Nov 2007 - 20 Nov 2024
News
American Express is expanding its involvement with location-based mobile outfit Foursquare to offer discounts to cardholders who check in at participating retail stores.
07 March 2011
Visa has launched a personal money management tool for bank customers to categorise and track their spending across multiple Visa card products.
10 February 2011
American Express has outlined plans to "consolidate locations" within its global servicing network, cutting its workforce by around 550 positions and leading to a $113 million restructuring charge that will hit fourth quarter results.
19 January 2011
American Express has agreed the EUR496 million acquisition of Loyalty Partner, a marketing services outfit operating programmes in Germany, Poland and India.
16 December 2010
American Express is to offer cardholders reward redemptions for virtual goods and games produced by Zynga, the developer of the popular Farmville Facebook game.
30 November 2010
American Express has named Aviva's Toby Eduardo Redshaw as chief information officer and executive vice president, heading up the card firm's global technology operations.
05 November 2010
American Express has agreed to pay around $150 million for Accertify, a provider of card-not-present (CNP) fraud protection technology.
04 November 2010
Over a third of the world's payments cards - around one billion - are now EMV with two thirds of terminals - 15.4 million - also on the standard designed to secure transactions at the point-of-sale.
06 October 2010
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
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