American Express news and trends

Visa, Amex and Mastercard Push CE 100 Index Up 0.8% on ‘Resilient’ Spending

October 21, 2024
Halfway Through: 3 Things We’ve Learned From PYMNTS B2B Month
B2B Payments // October 18, 2024

It’s been a busy October at PYMNTS. The monthlong event, B2B Payments: Outlook 2030, has been putting an exclamation point on the fact that B2B payments are transforming. The first week of the Outlook 2030 event centered on how platform and network models are impacting...

Millennials and Gen Z Consumers Boost Amex Card Spend in Q3
Earnings // October 18, 2024

For American Express, as has been a longstanding trend, it’s the younger consumers, cards in hand, who are boosting results. And, as Amex management noted on a Friday (Oct. 18) conference call with analysts, dining out is a prime example of where millennial and Gen...

This Week in B2B: Payments Get Interesting When Finance Teams Get Smarter
B2B Payments // October 17, 2024

For decades, B2B payments were an unglamorous yet essential component of corporate finance. Now, B2B payments have started to become a little more glamorous as executives realize the keys to their kingdom are often buried in the back office. Businesses are re-evaluating the nature of...

The Invisible Tax on Merchants: Time Spent Managing Disputes
Credit Cards // October 16, 2024

As the payments change, businesses are confronted with a need to refine their dispute resolution strategies to mitigate the impact of chargebacks. With the costs and prevalence of chargebacks on the rise, a PYMNTS Intelligence report, “Recovering Revenue: A Merchant’s Guide to Automated Chargeback Management,”...

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Visa, Amex and Mastercard Push CE 100 Index Up 0.8% on ‘Resilient’ Spending

October 21, 2024
If there’s been a consistent theme thus far during earnings season, it’s that consumer spending has proven to be resilient across any number of demographics. And as a result, for the CE 100 Index, banking and payments-related names (which, of course, rely on transaction volumes and the aforementioned consumer resilience), where Visa and Mastercard led […]

The Invisible Tax on Merchants: Time Spent Managing Disputes

October 16, 2024
As the payments change, businesses are confronted with a need to refine their dispute resolution strategies to mitigate the impact of chargebacks. With the costs and prevalence of chargebacks on...

Amex: Delayed B2B Payments Can Redefine Supplier Relationships

October 16, 2024
Businesses should focus on growth, not payments. However, that’s not to say that payments aren’t one of the most integral elements in business growth. “Consumers have definitely embraced digital payments,...

84% of Healthcare Organizations Report Financial Losses Due to Outdated AR Processes

September 26, 2024
In an era where convenience is king, the healthcare sector remains shackled by outdated payment processes that jeopardize its financial stability. Despite the promise of digital solutions to enhance efficiency...

Quick Reads
Pivot Joins Amex Sync to Provide Better Cash Flow Management

October 15, 2024
Commercial card FinTech Pivot Payables has launched an integration with American Express (Amex). The integration, announced Tuesday (Oct. 15), lets Amex business and corporate card members generate virtual cards within PivotLynx, Pivot Payables’ accounting automation application, getting requests to managers for budget approval and cost accounting. “We are teaming up with American Express to give our customers access to the control, […]

Revolut Business Enables UK Merchants to Accept American Express

October 09, 2024
Revolut Business has partnered with American Express to enable its merchants in the United Kingdom to accept American Express payments. This collaboration allows Revolut to enable its merchants to access a...

Amex and Boost Join Forces on Virtual Card Processing

October 01, 2024
American Express has teamed with Boost Payment Solutions to provide commercial virtual card processing services. The offering, open to U.S. merchants that accept American Express (Amex), provides access to Boost’s straight-through-processing (STP) solution...

Amex and UNIPaaS Team on Small Business Invoice Payments

September 03, 2024
Payment-as-a-Service provider UNIPaaS has launched a small-business-focused invoice payments partnership with American Express. The collaboration, announced by the London-based UNIPaaS Tuesday (Sept. 3), will let small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs),...