Starting next April, you won’t need to sign anything to make a purchase with an American Express card.
アメックス（アメリカンエキスプレスカード）で買い物をする場合に、2018年4月からサイン不要になります。
・買い物を早く済ませられるようするため、不正防止の対策が進化し、サインは不要に。
・対象は全世界
・マスターカードでもサインレスを2017年10月に発表したが対象はカナダとアメリカのみ
・Discover (DFS)もサインレスを発表したが、カナダ、アメリカ、メキシコ、カリブ諸国のみ
Starting next April, you won’t need to sign anything to make a purchase with an American Express card.
American Express (AXP) announced the change Monday, saying it aims to create a more consistent and faster checkout experience.“The payments landscape has evolved to the point where we can now eliminate this pain point for our merchants,” said Jaromir Divilek, an executive vice president for Amex. “Our fraud capabilities have advanced so that signatures are no longer necessary to fight fraud.”
American Express is the first card provider to make this change across the board, worldwide. But MasterCard (MA) announced in October that it was dropping the requirement for purchases in the United States and Canada, and Discover (DFS) announced the same change last week for purchases in those countries as well as Mexico and the Caribbean. As with Amex, those policies will change in April.
出典 http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/11/news/companies/american-express-drops-signatures/index.html
