American Express has forged some unique partnerships, especially within its extensive foray into social media. The latest venture marries the venerable charge card and the Serve digital wallet with FarmVille, the ...

American Express has launched a pilot program for its “My Offers” iPhone app that ranks merchant offers based on a card customer’s spending history and location. AmEx calls it the industry’s first ...

American Express has added its cards to the “mobile wallet” joint venture consisting of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. The Isis Mobile Wallet will now support American Express’ Consumer, Open Small Business ...

Nine out of ten of Americans surveyed said that companies fail to exceed their service expectations, while one out of two respondents walked away from an intended purchase in the past year because of a poor customer ...

The average annual percentage rate (APR) on new credit card offers remained unchanged at 14.91 percent this week, marking the ninth week of 17 this year that rates have not moved, according to creditcards.com The ...

With regulations limiting their recruiting of college students as customers, credit card issuers are increasingly partnering outright with schools to offering prepaid cards that can double as campus I.D. cards. U.S. ...

With customer defaults at historic lows, American Express said its first quarter profit rose 7 percent, beating Wall Street expectations as card spending jumped 12 percent over the year-ago period. The company’s ...

By 2020, swiping with smart phones or other devices will gain mainstream acceptance as a method of payment and could replace cash and credit/debit cards for most online and in-store purchases. That is the consensus ...

Ten percent of Americans, or an estimated 23 million people, are planning to move to a new home, condo or apartment in 2012, according to the latest American Express survey of 1,500 consumers. Of those, more than ...

American Express is using the micro-blogging giant Twitter to give its U.S. card members a new social media twist on merchant discounts. Card members can sync their eligible AmEx card with Twitter at sync.americanexpress.com/twitter. When ...