American Express

The American Express Company, also known as Amex, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center in New York City. The company was founded in 1850 and is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

American Express Co. operates as a global services company, which engages in the provision of credit card, financial, and global travel services. It operates through the following business segments: U.S. Card Services, International Card Services, Global Commercial Services, Global Network & Merchant Services, and Corporate & Other. The USCS segment offers products and services to consumers and small businesses in the United States and provides travel services to card members and other customers. The ICS segment provides proprietary consumer and small business cards outside the United States. The GCS segment includes global corporate payment services to large and mid-sized companies. The GNMS segment operates a global payments network that processes and settles proprietary and non-proprietary card transactions. It also provides point-of-sale products, multi-channel marketing programs and capabilities, services and data, leveraging the global closed-loop network. The Corporate & Other segment includes corporate functions and certain other businesses including the company’s enterprise growth business and other company operations. The company was founded by Henry Wells, William G. Fargo and John Warren Butterfield on March 28, 1850 and is headquartered in New York, NY.