Other Fees and Commissions and Other Expenses (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2021

Other Fees and Commissions and Other Expenses [Abstract]

Other commissions and fees

The following is a detail of Other fees and commissions for the three and nine months ended September 30:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(Millions)	2021		2020		2021		2020
Fees charged to Card Members:
Delinquency fees	$	166	$	159	$	460	$	615
Foreign currency conversion fee revenue	142		86		347		336
Other customer fees:
Loyalty coalition-related fees	123		112		368		309
Travel commissions and fees	74		19		164		84
Service fees and other (a)	127		102		373		303
Total Other fees and commissions	$	632	$	478	$	1,712	$	1,647

(a)Other includes Membership Rewards program fees that are not related to contracts with customers.

Other net expense

The following is a detail of Other expenses for the three and nine months ended September 30:

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(Millions)	2021		2020		2021		2020
Data processing and equipment (a)	$	613	$	577	$	1,772	$	1,690
Professional services	490		421		1,351		1,266
Net unrealized and realized gains on Amex Ventures equity investments	(142)		(66)		(773)		(116)
Other (b)	257		297		745		908
Total Other expenses	$	1,218	$	1,229	$	3,095	$	3,748

(a)Effective for the first quarter of 2021, we changed the expense category name from Occupancy and equipment to Data processing and equipment to better reflect the nature and components of the expense.

(b)Other primarily includes general operating expenses, communication expenses, non-income taxes, Card Member and merchant-related fraud losses, foreign currency-related gains and losses and litigation expenses.