{"id":89,"date":"2008-11-11T20:40:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T20:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=89"},"modified":"2010-04-03T20:33:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T20:33:58","slug":"american-express-now-a-bank-holding-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"American Express Now a Bank Holding Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Express sells a lot of gift cards. Today, according to this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20081111\/bs_nm\/us_financial_usa_amex\">article<\/a> Amex was approved by the Federal Reserve to become a bank holding company. What this means for gift card holders is that there is a new venue to complain about problems with Amex gift cards. As a bank holding company, Amex will be overseen by the Federal Reserve. You can find out more about the Federal Reserve&#8217;s consumer compalint process\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.federalreserveconsumerhelp.gov\/?District=13\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Express sells a lot of gift cards. Today, according to this\u00a0article Amex was approved by the Federal Reserve to become a bank holding company. What this means for gift card holders is that there is a new venue to complain about problems with Amex gift cards. As a bank holding company, Amex will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}