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American Express

Status Tracked

Card network outside the RBA’s formal regulation. Withdrew from its RBA undertaking on 1 October 2026 and removed surcharging by its own decision; the RBA says its cards on average cost merchants more to accept than Visa and Mastercard credit cards. The ATO charged 1.45 per cent on Amex payments until 30 September 2026.

First tracked
2026
Last on record
2026-10-03
Named in
4 articles
Across
3 cases

Named in 4 articles across 3 cases 26 connections: companies 10, lobbies 3, mechanisms 1, regulators and bodies 4, agencies and departments 2, parties and organisations 1, people 5

Key figure on file
One person
How many complainants the OAIC’s 15 June 2026 compensation order against American Express Australia covers.
4
Articles naming it
3
Cases it recurs across
26
Linked in the graph
2
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑10‑03Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

  1. One personHow many complainants the OAIC’s 15 June 2026 compensation order against American Express Australia covers.Nearly five years →
  2. 0.98 per centThe ATO’s card fee on a domestic Visa credit card until 30 September 2026, set equal to what its bank charged it. Mastercard domestic credit was 0.94 per cent, American Express 1.45 per cent, international Visa and Mastercard 2.03 per cent, and debit cards carried no fee.The cost the Tax Office won’t wear →
Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑10‑03Auto-assembled

Fig. 03 / Named together

American ExpressThe ACCC: named together in 3 articlesThe ACCC3ACCI: named together in 2 articlesACCI2COSBOA: named together in 2 articlesCOSBOA2eftpos: named together in 2 articleseftpos2Jim Chalmers: named together in 2 articlesJim Chalmers2Mastercard: named together in 2 articlesMastercard2Qantas: named together in 2 articlesQantas2The ATO: named together in 2 articlesThe ATO2The RBA: named together in 2 articlesThe RBA2Visa: named together in 2 articlesVisa2Alan Joyce: named together in 1 articleAlan Joyce1Anthony Albanese: named together in 1 articleAnthony Albanese1
The 12 names most often in the same articles as American Express. A line's weight, and the number by each name, is how many articles name both. Grey chords join the neighbours most often named together themselves (two articles or more). Circles are people and organisations, squares are mechanisms. Named together is all this shows: it is not a finding about what the relationship is.
Fig. 03Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑10‑03Auto-assembled

How this page is assembled. The name, status and role are the desk's entity record. The article list, case counts, connections and the figures under On the record are read by script from the published articles that name American Express: the desk's key figures where it declared them, otherwise figures harvested from those articles. A connection is a name that appears in the same articles; it is not a finding about the relationship. The page is rebuilt when an article is published or changed.

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