American Express Financial Advisors also requires every financial planner to sign an agreement that he or she will not solicit his or her American Express clients for one year after leaving.
American Express invites financial institutions to issue cards carrying the signature American Express logo and also to act as merchant acquirers on the Amex network by leveraging its infrastructure and brand image.
It expects to add Visa, Discover Financial and American Express to future versions of Google Wallet.
Just over two years from now, at age 55, opined Janet Benway of American Express Financial Advisors in Wayzata, Minn.
Fierce competition in the credit card business and a wave of huge mergers concentrated the industry in the hands of a few major players: Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Capital One Financial and American Express.
If Hollande wins the election, financial markets may well express doubts over several of the Socialists' campaign proposals.
The 162-year-old New York-based financial services firm American Express holds the top spot with a company rating of 3.7.
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The company also has looked to ease fears by beefing up its board, adding Daniel Henry, chief financial officer of American Express Co.
There's already evidence of this in a new survey of Chief Financial Officers by American Express revealing that international travel will drive a larger proportion of spending growth than domestic travel.
So in addition to providing financial funding and American Express employee volunteers to help with community projects, and grants dollars to maintain the historic integrity of their buildings, American Express also partners with the organizations to help them learn valuable skills to better achieve their missions.
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Its main competitors are Visa, American Express and Discover Financial.
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MasterCard is a global leader in payments solutions and competes with Visa, American Express and Discover Financial.
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This is a significant trend for Visa and other payment technology providers such as MasterCard, American Express and Discover Financial as it signifies the importance of growth opportunity that exists in Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Latin American countries.
"In the quarter, spend growth continued to be healthy, and was relatively consistent with the past several quarters, despite the negative impact of having an extra billing day in the first quarter of 2012 because of leap year, " Dan Henry, American Express' chief financial officer, said during a conference call with analysts.
Visa mainly competes with MasterCard, American Express, Discover Financial and Capital One.
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The names are familiar: Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, MasterCard, American Express and Capital One Financial.
It is rushing to reinvent itself as an express, logistics and financial group in time for a stockmarket flotation in October 2000.
However, a number of financial giants, led by American Express, are proving that there is indeed a way for the industry to innovate in a profitable and economically sustainable way: through social media.
In 1983 Mr Safra agreed to sell Trade Development Bank to American Express, then a sprawling financial services group.
The case doesn't involve American Express Co. or Discover Financial Services Inc.
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Financial services stocks like Citigroup and American Express broke out, and then a rebound in depressed oil properties like Exxon and Chevron put us over the top.
Founded in 1950, New York-based American Express is a leading global financial services company offering card payment products and travel-related services to consumers and businesses across the globe.
It says that the auditor does not express an opinion on the financial statements and supplemental schedules, but that the auditor does provide some assurance that the form and content of information included in statements and schedules comply with the Department of Labor rules and regulations.
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Among the chief executives of top U.S. financial companies, Kenneth Chenault of American Express Co.
It competes with other financial firms like Capital One, American Express, Visa and MasterCard.
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Though some of the most active promoters are marginal outfits, big financial institutions such as Merrill Lynch and American Express are in the game as well.
We have added to our positions, and the list is long: American Express, Citigroup, Golden West Financial, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae, Bank One, AIG, General Re (to become Berkshire Hathaway).
Because of the significance of the information that we did not audit, we are unable to, and do not, express an opinion on the accompanying financial statements and schedule taken as a whole.
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Over at Ameriprise, the financial services group recently spun off from American Express, pension changes are improving closing rates for new accounts by as much as 50%, according to Rusty Field, the company's vice-president of financial education and planning services.
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