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Merchants claim Visa and Mastercard, which control more than 80% of the market for card purchases, comprise a duopoly that gets to set swipe fees. They’ve been asking Congress for years to pass ...
In March 2024, a settlement in the injunctive relief portion of the payment card interchange fee case was announced to reduce what are known as "swipe fees" for merchants in the U.S. This change, set to last five years, was expected to save retailers about $30 billion and mark the end of a long-standing legal battle over antitrust issues ...
Swipe fees are often merchants’ second largest expense after labor and eventually get passed down to consumers, experts said. They already cost the average household more than $1,100 annually ...
Interchange fees or "debit card swipe fees" are paid to banks by acquirers for the privilege of accepting payment cards. Merchants and card-issuing banks have long fought over these fees. Prior to the Durbin amendment, card swipe fees were previously unregulated and averaged about 44 cents per transaction. [3]
If a merchant pays a $2 fee on a $100 transaction, about $1.60 of that goes to the customer's bank and a smaller amount goes to the merchant's bank, which together constitute an interchange fee.
The plaintiffs argued that the 24-cent cap is an "unreasonable interpretation" of the 2010 law, often called the Durbin Amendment, mandating a cap on debit card swipe fees. [ 6 ] The Durbin Amendment , passed as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation in 2010, required the Federal Reserve to limit fees charged to retailers for debit ...
A recent settlement between Visa, Mastercard and the largest U.S. credit card issuing banks and merchants has lowered swipe fees for the next five years, saving money on your monthly credit card ...
One part of the Act, the Durbin amendment, required the Federal Reserve Board to promulgate a regulation limiting fees for debit-card transactions. In 2011, the Board published its final rule, which set the maximum transaction fee at $0.21 plus 0.05% (5 basis points). [1] Several merchant groups challenged the rule in 2011 in NACS v.