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Other Fees and Commissions and Other Expenses (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2021
Other Fees and Commissions and Other Expenses [Abstract] |
Other commissions and fees | The following is a detail of Other fees and commissions for the three months ended March 31:
|  | Three Months Ended March 31, |  |
(Millions) |  | 2021 |  | 2020 |  |  |  |
Fees charged to Card Members: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Delinquency fees |  | $ | 148 |  |  | $ | 260 |  |  |  |  |
Foreign currency conversion fee revenue |  | 96 |  |  | 193 |  |  |  |  |
Other customer fees: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Loyalty coalition-related fees |  | 124 |  |  | 108 |  |  |  |  |
Travel commissions and fees |  | 33 |  |  | 60 |  |  |  |  |
Service fees and other (a) |  | 119 |  |  | 99 |  |  |  |  |
Total Other fees and commissions |  | $ | 520 |  |  | $ | 720 |  |  |  |  |
(a)Other includes Membership Rewards program fees that are not related to contracts with customers.
Other net expense | The following is a detail of Other expenses for the three months ended March 31:
|  | Three Months Ended March 31, |  |
(Millions) |  | 2021 |  | 2020 |  |  |  |
Data processing and equipment (a) |  | $ | 582 |  |  | $ | 549 |  |  |  |  |
Professional services |  | 403 |  |  | 439 |  |  |  |  |
Net unrealized gains on Amex Ventures equity investments (b) |  | (377) |  |  | (15) |  |  |  |  |
Other (c) |  | 262 |  |  | 316 |  |  |  |  |
Total Other expenses |  | $ | 870 |  |  | $ | 1,289 |  |  |  |  |
(a)Effective for the first quarter of 2021, we changed the expense category name from Occupancy and equipment to Data processing and equipment to better reflect the nature and components of the expense. (b)Represents net unrealized gains on equity investments without a readily determinable fair value. (c)Other expense primarily includes general operating expenses, non-income taxes, communication expenses, Card Member and merchant-related fraud losses, foreign currency-related gains and losses and litigation expenses.

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