secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     AMERICAN EXPRESS CO (AXP)
CIK:        0000004962
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-10-06T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000004962-22-000048
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.30
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

American Express elects former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton to Board of Directors
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- Jay Clayton elected to American Express Board effective October 5, 2022.
- Clayton served as SEC Chairman from 2017 to 2020; currently Senior Policy Advisor at Sullivan & Cromwell.
- He also serves as Non-Executive Chairman of Apollo Global Management Inc.
- His deep regulatory and legal expertise expected to benefit the Board, per CEO Stephen Squeri.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4962/000000496222000048/0000004962-22-000048-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4962/000000496222000048/axp-20221005.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000004962-22-000048

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