American Express announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Hypercard (Hyper), an agentic expense management company, adding to Amex’s AI expertise and capabilities across its commercial services business. „Hyper’s team of AI experts will help American Express continue to build agentic tools and AI-powered solutions that help businesses automate processes and simplify operations.” – according to the press release.
“Our customers want smarter, more efficient ways to manage expenses so they can focus on what’s next for their business, and AI has the potential to transform the way businesses get things done,” said Raymond Joabar, Group President of Global Commercial Services at American Express. “We’re thrilled to welcome Hyper, a team with deep expertise in designing and deploying AI agents, as we build next-generation AI capabilities into our products and services, including our expense management platform launching later this year.”
“We’re excited to join the team at American Express and work together to help businesses reduce friction in the expense process through AI technology,” said Marc Baghadjian, CEO and Co-Founder of Hyper. “Hyper was founded with the ambition to better automate expenses, and we’re excited to continue this mission as a part of the Amex team.”
Founded in 2022, Hyper has focused on transforming expense management from a manual process into more autonomous workflows, successfully developing native AI agents that auto-categorize and file expenses, check them against budget and policy and send reminders that submissions are due.
In 2024, American Express and Hyper partnered to launch the Hypercard Rewards American Express card with embedded AI-powered expense agents leveraging the Agile Partner Platform. Since then, Hyper has continued to focus and refine its agentic expense management capabilities.
The acquisition is expected to close within the second quarter of 2026, subject to closing conditions.
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