Best known for their credit cards and charge cards, American Express is a diversified financial services company founded in 1850. With headquarters in New York City, American Express is a 50 billion dollar company which trades under the ticker symbol AXP on the NYSE. Fortune ranks it as the 74th largest company in the world and it is one of the elite thirty stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Although American Express first considered the idea of a charge card for traveling in 1946, it did not become a serious concept for the company until their Diners Club released their own charge card in spring of 1950. Fast forward a few years later, American Express decided to get in the game and launch their own charge card on October 1st, 1958. With an annual fee of six dollars, which was one dollar higher than Diners Club, the goal was to position the American Express as the premium charge card.
American Express released the Gold Card in 1966. 18 years later the Platinum Card would follow. It carried an annual fee of $250 and was by invitation only. It was not until 1987 when the company started issuing credit cards too. The Optima was their first card which allowed a balance to be carried over and interest charged.
1999 proved to be a major historically exciting year for the company. They released Blue from American Express, a no-annual fee credit card geared towards younger cardholders. 1999 also marked release of another new card, although no press releases or advertisements ever existed for it. It was the Centurion Card, or what is commonly nicknamed the black card. With an annual fee of $1000 at the time, it was a charge card aimed at the uber wealthy of the world. A third major event happened that year when American Express replaced Discover Card as the exclusive credit card which could be used at Costco.
Today American Express goes head-to-head with Visa and Mastercard as a key player in the credit card and charge card market. The list of American Express cards includes:American Express partner cards include:
- American Express Preferred Rewards Green Card
- American Express Gold Card
- American Express Preferred Rewards Gold Card
- American Express Platinum Card
- Fidelity American Express Platinum Card
- Blue from American Express
- Blue Cash Card
- Blue Sky from American Express
- Blue for Students
American Express Airline rewards cards:American Express Costco credit cards
- JetBlue Credit Card
- Blue Sky Credit Card
- Delta SkyMiles Options Credit Card
- SkyPoints Credit Card from Delta
- Delta SkyMiles Credit Card
- Gold Delta SkyMiles Credit Card
- Delta SkyMiles Platinum Credit Card
American Express Hotel Cards
- Costco TrueEarnings Credit Card
- Costco Cash Rebate Credit Card
City specific reward cards
- Hilton HHonors Platinum Credit Card
- Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card
Lifestyle credit cards
- In:NYC Credit Card
- In:LA Credit Card
- In:Chicago Credit Card
(Update Oct. 08 - American Express has discontinued the IN: series of cards)Optima credit cards
- The Knot Credit Card
- The Nest Credit Card
- American Express Gold Card
- American Express Red Card (UK only)
Savings and cash back credit cards
- Optima Credit Card
- Optima Platinum Card
American Express business credit cards and charge cards include:
- American Express One Credit Card
- American Express Clear Credit Card
- American Express Cash Rebate Credit Card
- American Express Platinum Cash Rebate Credit Card
Business
- Business Green Rewards Charge Card
- Business Gold Rewards Charge Card
- Executive Business Charge Card
- Business Platinum Charge Card
- Platinum Business Credit Card
- Platinum Business FreedomPass Credit Card
- Business Membership Rewards Card
- The Plum Card
- Blue for Business Credit Card
- Blue Cash for Business Credit Card
- Simply Cash Business Credit Card
- Costco True Earnings Business Card
- JetBlue Business Credit Card
- Gold Delta SkyMiles Business Credit Card
- Platinum Delta SkyMiles Business Credit Card
- Starwood Preferred Guest Business Credit Card


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