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American Express

New York City, United States · Founded 1850

American Express was founded in 1850 by Henry Wells, William Fargo and John Warren Butterfield, and is based in New York City, United States.

Key facts

Legal form
corporation
Employees
64,000 (2021)
Listed
New York Stock Exchange
Revenue
USD 38,825,000,000 (2024)

About

American multinational financial services corporation

Founders

In context

We hold 5 other financial services companies founded in the 1850s. None has a closure on record yet.

Counted across this directory, from founding and closing years in public records. Medians cover only companies whose closure is recorded; a company with no closure date may have quietly ceased without the record catching it.

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