Originally Posted by
tmiw
BTW, props to AmEx for texting the foreign currency amount in their notifications instead of just the converted USD amount as with most other issuers. Unfortunately, foreign charges don't seem to appear in the pending transaction list on their website; not sure why that is.
The claim is that they don't know the USD amount until it posts, as that's when they do the forex conversion. Therefore, they don't show it in pending. They could, of course, show you the foreign currency amount in pending, but they don't.