UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q/A
Amendment No. 1
| x | QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the Quarterly Period Ended June 30, 2009
or
| ¨ | TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the Transition Period from to
Commission file number 1-7657
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| New York | 13-4922250 | |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | |
| World Financial Center, 200 Vesey Street, New York, NY | 10285 | |
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) | |
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (212) 640-2000
None
Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report.
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes x No ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
| Large accelerated filer x | Accelerated filer ¨ | Non-accelerated filer ¨ | Smaller reporting company ¨ | |||
| (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) |
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ¨ No x
Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.
| Class |
Outstanding at July 23, 2009 | |
| Common Shares (par value $.20 per share) | 1,189,201,513 shares |
Explanatory Note
The purpose of this Amendment No. 1 to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2009, (the “Form 10-Q”), as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 3, 2009, is to furnish Exhibit 101 to the Form 10-Q as required by Rule 405 of Regulation S-T. Exhibit 101 to this report provides the following items from the Form 10-Q formatted in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL): (i) the unaudited Consolidated Statements of Income, (ii) the unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets, (iii) the unaudited Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, and (iv) the notes to the unaudited consolidated financial statements, tagged as blocks of text.
Users of this data are advised that pursuant to Rule 406T of Regulation S-T these interactive data files are deemed not filed or part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of Sections 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, are deemed not filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and otherwise are not subject to liability under those sections. No other changes have been made to the Form 10-Q other than those described above. This Amendment No. 1 speaks as of the original filing date of the Form 10-Q, and does not modify or update in any way disclosures made in the Form 10-Q.
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| Item 6. | Exhibits |
The list of exhibits required to be filed as exhibits to this report are listed on Page E-1 hereof, under “Exhibit Index,” which is incorporated herein by reference.
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SIGNATURES
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 thereunto duly authorized.
| AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY | ||||||||
| (Registrant) | ||||||||
| Date: September 2, 2009 | By | /s/ Daniel T. Henry | ||||||
| Daniel T. Henry | ||||||||
| Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||||||||
| Date: September 2, 2009 | By | /s/ Joan C. Amble | ||||||
| Joan C. Amble | ||||||||
| Executive Vice President and Comptroller (Principal Accounting Officer) | ||||||||
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EXHIBIT INDEX
The following exhibits are filed as part of this Quarterly Report:
| Exhibit |
Description | |
| 12 | Computation in Support of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges.* | |
| 31.1 | Certification of Kenneth I. Chenault pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.* | |
| 31.2 | Certification of Daniel T. Henry pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.* | |
| 32.1 | Certification of Kenneth I. Chenault and Daniel T. Henry pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.* | |
| 101.INS | XBRL Instance Document** | |
| 101.SCH | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document** | |
| 101.CAL | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document** | |
| 101.LAB | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document** | |
| 101.PRE | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document** | |
| * | Filed with our Form 10-Q on August 3, 2009 |
| ** | Furnished with this Form 10-Q/A |
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