American Express Company filed SEC Form 8-K: Leadership Update, Financial Statements and Exhibits
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Finance: Consumer Services
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 23, 2025
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| Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers | ||||
(d) The Board of Directors of American Express Company (the “Company”) elected Randal K. Quarles and Noel Wallace as directors of the Company, effective July 23, 2025. Mr. Quarles will serve as a member of the Board’s Nominating, Governance and Public Responsibility Committee and Risk Committee and Mr. Wallace will serve as a member of the Board’s Audit and Compliance Committee and Compensation and Benefits Committee. A copy of the press release announcing the election of Messrs. Quarles and Wallace is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
Messrs. Quarles and Wallace and members of their immediate family are directors, employees and/or have equity interests in companies with whom the Company had entered into ordinary course business relationships prior to their election as directors of the Company and with whom the Company may enter into additional ordinary course relationships from time to time. These may include ordinary course merchant relationships pursuant to which these companies accept the Company’s credit and charge cards and pay the Company fees when their customers use these cards. From time to time, the Company may enter into joint marketing or other relationships with one or more of these companies in the ordinary course that encourage their customers to apply for and use the Company’s products and services. The Company may also provide ordinary course Corporate Card, travel and other payment and financing products and services, including extensions of credit, on terms and conditions similar to those available to other customers generally to some of these companies for which these companies pay fees to the Company. The Company may also engage in other commercial transactions with these companies and pay or receive fees in those transactions.
Messrs. Quarles and Wallace will participate in the compensation program for non-employee directors as described under the heading “Compensation of Directors” in the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 14, 2025.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits | ||||
(d) Exhibits
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| 104 | The cover page of this Current Report on Form 8-K, formatted as inline XBRL. | ||||
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY | ||||||||
| (REGISTRANT) | ||||||||
| By: | /s/ James J. Killerlane III | |||||||
| Name: James J. Killerlane III | ||||||||
| Title: Corporate Secretary | ||||||||
Date: July 23, 2025
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