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 28 connections: companies 11, lobbies 4, 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.

Articles naming it

Cases it recurs across

Linked in the graph

Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Surcharge Rort0.98 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.…2 articles →The Airline Rort11 article →The Privacy RortOne personHow many complainants the OAIC’s 15 June 2026 compensation order against American Express Australia covers.1 article →

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

Fig. 02 / On the record

One personHow many complainants the OAIC’s 15 June 2026 compensation order against American Express Australia covers.Nearly five years →
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

How we know

The sources of the 4 articles that name American Express, by the tier the desk declared. A source supports its article, not necessarily a claim about American Express.

Evidence strength · 142 sources across 4 articles

Primary 75
Official 40
Masthead 9
Trade 9
Aggregator 8
Unusable 1

Primary: the document itself: legislation, a court record, a filing, a regulator’s own publication
Official: the organisation’s own statement about itself
Masthead: a news organisation with a corrections policy, reporting the primary document
Trade: specialist or trade press
Aggregator: republishes others’ work
Unusable: its own sourcing cannot be established

How sources are graded

3 of 4 articles are graded on every headline finding. How findings are graded

Fig. 03 / Named together

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