American Express Company (AXP) Presents at Alliance Bernstein 37th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference (Transcript)

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American Express Company (NYSE:AXP)
Alliance Bernstein 37th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference
June 04, 2021, 09:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Steve Squeri - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Conference Call Participants

Craig Maurer - Autonomous Research

Craig Maurer

Good morning. Thanks everyone for joining us and welcome. I'm Craig Maurer. I head the payments and FinTech team at Autonomous Research. We're excited to welcome back American Express to our 37th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference. We're excited to have Steve Squeri joining us today. Steve is the Chairman and CEO of American Express. Steve, great to see you again.

Steve Squeri

Craig, great to see you. Thanks for having us on once again.

Craig Maurer

Yes, welcome back and thanks again for joining us. I'd like to thank the investors as well for joining us today, and a few logistical items before we get started. For the format of today's conversation, we're going to obviously have a fireside chat. I'll start it off with some questions. And we'll also be taking questions from the audience as we go. We want to make this as interactive as possible.

So as a friendly reminder, you can submit questions using the live Q&A tab on the right side of your viewing screen. We'll be checking those questions throughout the presentation and we'll pass those along to Steve as they come in. Lastly, if you have any questions, or if you experience technical difficulties, please reach out to your sales contact or investor access at Bernstein or Autonomous. So with that, let's get started.

So, Steve, we're two thirds of the way through the quarter and have grown over the easiest comps while also receiving a shot of stimulus. What have you seen in terms of volume trends in the