Outside the U.S., Amex has taken a step away from its closed loop model where it issues its own credit cards and also acts as the acquirer for merchants accepting the card.
There are many areas of overlap between biomimicry and "cradle-to-cradle" particularly in the way that ecosystems present a great model of closed loop systems in which any waste from one organism becomes the nutrient for something else.
American Express has successfully implemented its spend-centric model and closed-loop network to achieve growth over the last few years and was one of the few financial companies to come out of the economic crisis of 2008 virtually unscathed.
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American Express says it is uniquely positioned to offer the service thanks to its "closed-loop" business model in which it acts as card issuer, merchant acquirer and payment processing operator.
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That growth relied on a state-led development model, financed with foreign debt within a semi-closed economy.
In Denmark, nearly 70 percent of hospitals closed as they made the shift from a reactive, sick-care model to proactive care model.
During the four-day bail hearing for Mr. Pistorius, the state has alleged the Olympic and Paralympic runner fired shots through a closed bathroom door and killed his girlfriend, 29-year-old model and aspiring actress Ms. Steenkamp, after what it says could have been a Valentine's Day argument with his girlfriend.
The festival closed with French director Raoul Ruiz's period drama "Les Ames Fortes, " starring model Laetitia Casta.
Even Thailand, the model patient, has still not made great progress in selling off the bad assets of closed finance companies, which might allow the glutted property market to clear.
We're told the plan is to open-source things by summer 2011, and that Google TV will follow the same model as Android and the Google apps on phones, with some Google-specific TV apps remaining closed-source and not part of the general distribution.
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