Current Rivalry
The existing competitors of American Express include Discover Financial Services, Visa, Inc., and MasterCard Worldwide. Unlike American Express and Discover, Visa, and MasterCard are not financers, which means these companies are intermediaries and “they don’t directly finance credit card transactions” (Thangavelu, 2015). That being said, Discover is more in American Express’ strategic group because they both issue cards and work within the same strategic group, so American Express and Discover compete more directly.
Potential Entrants
Not only are there current rivals in every industry, there is always the threat and opportunity for potential entrants to come to the industry. But not just anyone can enter an industry easily, as there are barriers to entry that will prevent some competitors to entering a market. American Express has worked hard to set itself apart from its competitors and create a product differentiation. Because American Express is in the closed-loop network, being the issuer and acquirer, they attract more of an affluent customer base who are more likely to spend more on their transactions. Unlike other card companies, American Express relies on their primary source of revenue being the discount fee that they charge the companies that accept its cards. “These fees are charged as a percentage of the charge amount processed for the merchant” (Forbes, 2014). With that being said, this means American Express relies on its affluent customers
Ponzi Schemes also known as a multi-marketing organization are white-collar crime; it is essentially an individual swindling a quick investment from new investors. Always ends up with investors or victums losing “their shirt” all the profits and many cases the company and is bankrupted and the owner ends up in jail. Two very highly successful Ponzi schemes are Primerica group and Amway. Primerica Group sells insurance and financial services and Amway sells heath insurance, but it doesn’t matter what they sale, its all about recruitment. They take your hard earned money and invest it into there business for a bigger profit in the future for a retirement but many people who try to get some of there money back for emergency are sadly mistaken
MasterCard Incorporated is one of the world’s premier credit card processing and money transfer companies in the world. It is the second major payment company in the United States. They focus on making payment transactions safer and beneficial to the society while delivering value through their innovation and execution. MasterCard has three main competitors, Visa at the very top, American Express, and Discover. Visa Inc. has the largest market share of 13.7 percent in the United States with revenue of $12,702 million in 2014. In the same financial year, MasterCard Inc. has recorded total revenue of only $9,473 million and 7.3 percent of total market shares. MasterCard’s SWOT analysis revealed its strength of being the world’s second
JP Morgan and Chase (JPMC) is the top fanatical service of US market and the biggest bank in US. JPCM with its exceptional 5 different business segments, which are corporate and investment banking (CIB), consumer and community banking (CCB), asset and wealth management (AWM), commercial banking (CB) and corporate entity.
Hey guys, hope you’re all enjoying your placements. They sound great! I mentioned last week that the Network sent out a newsletter for artists to submit their artwork for three desired, upcoming events: Bridgepoint, Capital One, and Bowsart. We extended the deadline because we were not receiving enough submissions. Bridgepoint is only open to members of the Network, but Capital One is open to artists and other non-members. Thus far, we have received much more submissions for the Capital One event. Location is key. Capital One is set in a corporate building and can generate more cliental. My task was to transfer each artists’ submission from the website into a document for the board. An artist can submit up to three images for each event. For example, only 8 pieces of artwork are selected by a jury to be showcased at Bridgepoint and CapitalOne.
In general chase’s total non-interest expenses in 2011 rose 5.11% higher than the total non-interest expense in 2010. The net income in 2010 seems lower than 2011 due to less operating and investment activities in 2010. Apart the item labeled other expenses and amortization of intangibles; all the other expenses were slightly higher. The increase in non-interest expense was driven largely by higher compensation expense reflecting headcount. The operating cost as part of the non-interest expense was definitely higher compared to 2010.The higher headcount visibly explains this increase. The provision for credit lost was 8.41% lower than the 2010 provision. This was due to the amelioration of collection from customers. Consumer business modestly improved and mortgage net charge-offs and delinquencies improved. It is probably included in the item “other expenses” which were lower than 2010 but 6.38% higher than 2009. Tax Burden: The total revenue in 2011 was 5.62% lower than the revenue in 2011 but the bottom line was a lot higher
AmeriTrust Bank is a very known southern bank. It is amongst the top 20 banks in the United States and the top 20 financial institutes in Florida. The bank is 126 years old forming in 1891, at the time it was known as Trust of Georgia. It was granted a charter by Georgia General Assemble, it was founded by a group of men that named the bank Trust of Georgia after restructuring itself as a trust company. The Predecessor of AmeriTrust was founded in 1911 as the people’s Local Bank. In 1920 it became The First Local Bank but due to the Great Depression it failed in the 1930’s. Reorganizing itself in 1934 as The First National Bank at Orlando and in the 1970’s it merged with other Orlando Banks to become Ameri Bank.
The financial services industry is extremely competitive and Capital One competes directly with major companies in the two distinct areas of credit services and investment banking sales. Major competitors for credit services include American Express, Bank of America, and Discover Financial Services. The average revenue of the industry is $42.89 million while the average market cap is just $125.9 million. While Capital one easily exceeds these amounts with revenues of $15 billion and market cap
American Express Company (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as AmEx, is a diversified global financial services company headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler's cheque businesses. Amex cards account for approximately 24% of the total dollar volume of credit card transactions in the US, the highest of any card issuer. [1]
For the threat of new entrants, the financial market in United States is fiercely competitive. The threat of new entrants is not serious for some companies that have been famous for a long time. Capita One continued to seek technological innovation and adopt the diversification strategy, they stick to running business including credit cards, auto loans, family loans, savings, personal credit, insurance and so on. According to the data on MBAlib website, by the end of 2017, the credit card loan balance of Capital One was 97 billion 100 million dollars, which is the third place in the U.S credit card market. The companies in the first and second is 141 billion 800 million of Morgan and 133 billion 300 million of Citigroup. The revenue of credit card accounts for 62.8% of the total revenue.
Kenneth I. Chenault was born on June 2nd, 1951, in Mineola New York. He went to Bowdoin College and he also went to Harvard University. Before he became CEO he was working at Bain & Company from 1979 to 1981 as a management consultant. Chenault is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of American Express. He went to go work for American Express in 1981 as Director of strategic planning. He saw an opportunity to work in a different department within the company, which was the merchandising group. Chenault saw and wanted a challenge, and he got one. He took the company from making 150 million to 500 million.
American Express is one of the main organizations with a solid, worldwide nearness over the whole installments chain. They are the world 's biggest card backer, with premium system for high-spending card individuals. They handle a great many exchanges every day, and have accomplices that give business-building administrations to an overall trader base. With them having this level scale crosswise over installments gives them different chances to develop their business and drive advancement in the commercial center. It 's additionally a portal to a more extensive exhibit of administrations that further separate American Express. ("Our Company," n.d.)
American Express began as a freight forwarding company in the 1850s, then repositioned as a travel agency, a financial and consulting services company. By recognizing that technology has changed the way people communicate and transact with one another, American Express understands the scope and role of internet technology on the travel market. The corporation turned itself into the booming sector of online services and became an interactive business player in a wide array of services. Today, American Express, known as Amex, is a multi-billion dollar corporation that has reshaped its services and operates more than 1700 travel service locations in over 130 countries across the globe.
American Express, also know as AMEX, is a global financial services company headquartered in New York City and founded in 1850. With 54,000 employees and a revenue of over 35 billion dollars American Express stands tall on the New York Stock Exchange (Sec.gov). American Express is best known for it’s credit cards, which make up about twenty-five percent of total dollar volume in credit card transactions in The United States of America (Reviews.greatplacetowork.com). American Express’ goal is to maintain a leading and almost elite reputation with as many qualified card holders as possible. American Express does this by concentrating on the customer’s experience and branding that experience. American Express’ key components in maintaining and further exceling into this goal includes focusing on their human recourses, social responsibility, and marketing techniques.
Citibank should launch the card product in Asia for several reasons. Firstly, Citibank can ride on the rapid economic development in the region via credit card products. Secondly, it is also an excellent way to overcome distribution limitations imposed on foreign banks in the region. Thirdly, it allows Citibank to expand its customer base from the upper income segment to include the rapidly growing middle-income households, which is consistent with its global growth strategy and mission in Asia Pacific. Fourthly, by introducing credit cards, Citibank will be able to cross-sell other product lines such as Auto Loans and Ready Credit
International merger : In 2008 standard chartered bank acquired American Express bank ltd, the international banking subsidiary of American Express for US$823 million dollars.