Sunday, May 26, 2013

Foreign Exchange Rates

Foreign Exchange Rates, Travel Money Cards and Currency Converters and General Conversion Tools.

American Express Currency Converter

Here is the link to the Currency Converter for American Express for more detailed currency converters and foreign exchange rates comparison by other vendors click here.

Here is some information taken from the Reuters website about American Express Company.

The Company’s online FX International Payments service allows companies and financial institutions (and consumers, in the case of Australia) to make cross-border payments in foreign currencies. Through American Express Publishing, the Company produces luxury lifestyle magazine brands, such as Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Departures and Executive Travel; a variety of travel, cooking, wine, time management and financial books and products; international editions of its titles; digital and mobile content; luxury-marketing events, and custom print and online programs for clients. The Global Services Group (Global Services) consists of world service, global business services, global credit administration (GCA) and technologies. The Company’s United States and international service organizations have been consolidated under World Service.


The Global Business Services division consists principally of procurement, real estate, human resources processing, and financial processing. GCA is responsible for the end-to-end management of the Company’s credit, collections and fraud operations worldwide. As of December 31, 2011, customers had enrolled approximately 30 million Cards globally in the Company’s online account management capability known as the Manage Your Card Account service. The Company has an online presence in 27 countries worldwide, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, France, Mexico and Japan.


The Company competes with Visa Inc. (Visa), MasterCard International, Inc. (MasterCard), Discover Financial Services, Discover, JCB, China UnionPay, PayPal, Citibank, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Capital One Financial, HSBC, Banco Santander, U.S. Bank, and Google Wallet.