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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]
Richard Durbin, the senator from Illinois who was the main proponent of those rules, has called the proposed settlement on credit card swipe fees, "gives Visa and MasterCard free rein to carry on their anti-competitive swipe-fee system with no real constraints and no legal accountability. This is not a settlement I would agree to.
Credit card companies don't work for free. Every time you use one, the store you're buying from is charged a "swipe fee" — and that charge will get passed down to you in higher prices.
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 ...
These questions are part of an increasingly heated debate about so-called swipe fees, the estimated $48 billion that merchants pay to banks and credit card companies for the use of those ...
Owning a small business is not easy and costly credit card fees are making it harder. That was a message heard repeatedly during a meeting Monday with U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill, who outlined ...
Sens. Dick Durbin (D–Ill.) and J.D. Vance (R–Ohio) are two of the leading sponsors of the Credit Card Competition Act, which would artificially cap so-called swipe fees charged by credit card ...
According to Heller, with the two companies controlling about 80% of the credit card market, the bigger banks need to start providing more credit options — a choice of at least two networks that ...