What is American Express?
{{Infobox company |name = American Express Company |logo = American Express logo (2018).svg |type = Public |traded_as = {{New York Stock Exchange|AXP}}<br />[[Dow Jones Industrial Average|Dow Jones Component]]<br />[[S&P 500|S&P 500 Component]] |predecessor = Livingston, Fargo & Company<br />Wells, Butterfield & Company<br />Wells & Company<ref name=PZG>Peter Z. Grossman. ''American Express: The Unofficial History of the People Who Built the Great Financial Empire''. New York: Crown Publishers, 1987. (reprint: Beard Books 2006; {{ISBN|1-58798-283-8}}; Chapter 2.)</ref><ref name=NML>Noel M. Loomis, Wells Fargo. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1968</ref> |industry = Banking, [[Financial services]] |foundation = [[Buffalo, New York]], U.S. (1850) |location = [[Three World Financial Center]],<br />{{Nowrap begin}}New York City, New York, U.S.{{Nowrap end}} |key_people = [[Kenneth Chenault]]<br /><small>(Chairman & CEO)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.neumann-compensation.com/managers/company/american-express-company/ | title=Top Management Compensation | access-date=August 30, 2010 | archive-date=May 16, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516065805/http://www.neumann-compensation.com/managers/company/american-express-company/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> </small> |area_served = Worldwide |products = [[Charge card]], credit cards, [[traveler's cheque]] |services = [[Financial services|Finance]], insurance, travel |revenue = {{Increase}} US$ {{0|0}}29,962 [[1000000000 (number)|billion]] <small>(2011)</small><ref name=10K>{{cite web|url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4962/000095012311019072/y87970exv13.htm|title=2010 Form 10-K, American Express Company|publisher=United States Securities and Exchange Commission}}</ref> |operating_income = {{Increase}} US$ {{0|00}}6.956&nbsp;billion <small>(2011)</small><ref name=10K/> |net_income = {{Increase}} US$ {{0|00}}4.935&nbsp;billion <small>(