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American Express has revealed an online checkout service that works across desktop, mobile and apps to let US card holders make payments with their existing AmEx user ID and password, without having to create or manage a new account. The company has also teamed up with payment platform Stripe to extend the solution to all Stripe participating merchants. [...]

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After years of prohibiting merchants who accept its cards from steering customers to other brands, American Express is being forced to lift those restrictions. The change comes after a federal judge in February found that AmEx’s rules on the matter were anticompetitive; a separate court this week denied the company’s request to keep the rules in [...]

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Our Advanced Payments Survey, sponsored by American Express, as in previous years, indicates that industry opinion on what is required to develop a successful mobile payment service remains the same. Smooth or “frictionless” consumer interaction designed to work intuitively consistently scores at the top of the table for key success factors.

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