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American Express

American Express was founded in New York in 1850 and started out as a leading global payments network and travel company.

American Express

In the beginning American Express was dedicated to providing postal services at a time when it was almost impossible to send or retrieve mail. Yet, as time and experience brought in new ideas as well as realizations about profit and sound judgments for expansion, American Express evolved into a company that established stock certificates, currency for banks and other financial institutions. View all credit card offers.

In 1882 an international expansion occurred and American Express launched the money order business after experiencing as much success with their past endeavors. In 1891 American Express created the first travelers cheques and the business started growing overnight. Relationships were formed with banks in Europe and strengthened over time. In 1958, American Express issued its first credit card, and today is known as one of the leading credit card companies in the world.

American Express provides an array of credit cards for the masses and continuously strives to maintain their standing as one of the best credit cards offered to consumers. American Express is dedicated in their role as one of the best credit card companies and maintains one of the best reputations through great customer service, trust, security, integrity and quality of their services.

American Express, like most other credit card companies, offers a wide variety of credit cards that are designed to cover everybody's needs. With a diverse set of offerings like platinum and gold rewards cards, travel cards, green express cards for consumers and they even have card offers that are suited for college students. American Express also offers Open the Small Business NetworkSM which specializes in offers like small business cards, corporate cards, merchant cards and even additional services and products that you can choose from. Find out everything you need to know about American Express and what kind of cards they offer.

American Express headquarters can be found at:
American Express Company
World Financial Center
200 Vesey St.
New York, NY 10285

 


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