American Express stories
Merchants could win back lost sales as tokenised checkout trims friction, reduces card-not-present fraud and keeps payment data in bank rails.
Banks are under pressure to turn scattered customer data into actionable advice as BMO adopts Codat’s new platform for client conversations.
Shareholders are set to pocket USD $9.50 a share as the business travel group exits public markets, pending approvals.
The payment option is generating more completed sales, with approval rates for online guest checkouts rising to 75.18% in April 2026.
The new tools could let firms’ AI agents act on live data more securely across clouds, while cutting rebooking from hours to minutes.
Cardholders will get protection from AI agent mistakes as the payments group extends its network safeguards to software-led purchases.
Backers say the move will give AI agents and apps a neutral, open payments standard for web transactions, with support from Amazon, Visa and others.
The updates should cut manual expense work and tighten policy compliance as SAP Concur rolls out more AI and card-linked automation.
SAP Concur rolls out new Joule AI agents, tighter Microsoft and card links, and expanded travel tools to streamline corporate expenses.
MariaDB moves to buy in-memory specialist GridGain in a bid to deliver sub-millisecond latency for agentic AI and real-time workloads.
Mastercard taps Peter Schmeichel to front a UK push for tokenised Click to Pay checkouts, aiming to end manual card entry by 2030.
LoungePair links with Vietnam Airlines' Lotusmiles and Auckland Airport's Strata Lounge, expanding its on-demand lounge access network.
SMEs prioritise AI and face-to-face meetings, but US firms outpace UK peers on dedicated staff and appetite for external AI advice.
Google has launched an open Universal Commerce Protocol to standardise AI shopping flows across search, apps, merchants and payments.
A tougher fee regime is pushing the payments firm to offer SMEs more services, from POS and broadband to bookkeeping, beyond EFTPOS.
Business customers could soon get more automated spending controls as American Express buys Hyper to add AI expense tools to its commercial services.
Backed by its founders, the AI venture is targeting firms struggling to turn pilots into measurable gains as demand grows across regulated industries.
New York fintech Ramp is betting on 'self-driving' finance, using AI and Visa cards to automate spend, bills and cash for US firms.
Agentic AI Foundation taps AWS executive David Nalley as board chair while expanding to 146 members to push standards for agent-based AI.
THG Studios hires Adam Mandelstam and Rob Sanderson to lead a reshaped senior creative team as it pursues international growth.