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American Express
Sign in to saveAlso known as American Express Company, American Express Co, American Express Bank, AmEx, americanexpress.com, AEXP
American multinational financial services corporation
Key facts
- Company type
- Public
- Traded as
- NYSE : AXP DJIA component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Predecessor
- Livingston, Fargo & Company Wells, Butterfield & Company Wells & Company
- Founded
- March 18, 1850 ; 176 years ago ( 1850-03-18 ) , in Buffalo, New York , U.S.
- Headquarters
- 200 Vesey Street , New York City , U.S.
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Key people
- Stephen Squeri ( chairman & CEO ) Christophe Le Caillec ( CFO )
- Revenue
- US$ 72.23 billion (2025)
- Operating income
- US$13.79 billion (2025)
- Net income
- US$10.83 billion (2025)
- Total assets
- US$300.1 billion (2025)
- Total equity
- US$33.47 billion (2025)
- Number of employees
- 76,800 (2025)
- Subsidiaries
- American Express Global Business Travel (33.54%) Resy
- Website
- americanexpress .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Company
AXP- Industry
- Finance Services
- Exchange
- NYSE
- State of incorporation
- NY
- Entity type
- operating
- Latest filing
- 8-K · 2026-05-15
- Jurisdiction
- US-NY
- Headquarters
- New York, US
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Location
- New York, United States
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.422439.a · ISNI 0000 0004 1186 2722
Official website
Finans ve Ödeme Sektörünün Global Elçisi | American Express
American Express'in zengin dünyasında kredi kartları, kampanyalar, seyahat hizmetleri ve ayrıcalıklar hakkında ayrıntılı bilgi alın, avantajları keşfedin!
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Encyclopedic overview
American Express Company (Amex) is an American bank holding company and multinational financial services corporation that specializes in payment cards. It is headquartered at 200 Vesey Street, also known as American Express Tower, in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Lower Manhattan; in 2026, the company announced that it would develop and be the sole occupant of the new 2 World Trade Center skyscraper in the nearby World Trade Center complex.
Amex is the fourth-largest card network globally based on purchase volume, behind China UnionPay, Visa, and Mastercard. 141.2 million Amex cards were in force worldwide as of December 31, 2023, with an average annual spend per card member of US$24,059. That year, Amex handled over $1.7 trillion in purchase volume on its network. Amex is the 16th largest US bank, with a total of US$270 billion in assets or 1.1% of all assets insured by the FDIC. It is ranked 58th on the Fortune 500 and 28th on the list of the most valuable brands by Forbes. In 2023, it was ranked 63rd in the Forbes Global 2000. American Express National Bank is a direct bank owned by Amex.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “American Express” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.