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Old Jan 21, 2016 | 9:39 pm
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Originally Posted by eajusa
This article helps to explain the rationale behind Amex's decision to shut down Serve and Bluebird: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...not-so-wealthy
That is a good article. Though I'm perplexed by this line "About 90 percent of Serve customers are new or returning to AmEx, according to the company." So...what are the other 10%? Existing customers? Because returning would imply they aren't Amex customers at the time they signed up.

Also with that article, it's worth noting that since they classify Serve/BB under "Enterprise Growth", they reported a pre-tax write down of $419 million in the enterprise growth division in Q4 2015.
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