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Merchants lobbied heavily for a rule to limit debit card swipe fees. [4] They accomplished this when the Durbin amendment passed with the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation on July 21, 2010. [5] This was considered a major loss for banks, who receive billions of dollars a year in income from swipe fees. [6]
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.
In a credit card or debit card transaction, the card-issuing bank in a payment transaction deducts the interchange fee from the amount it pays the acquiring bank that handles a credit or debit card transaction for a merchant. The acquiring bank then pays the merchant the amount of the transaction minus both the interchange fee and an additional ...
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 ...
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 ...
While consumer prices have risen about 20% since the pandemic, swipe fees have increased by 50% and hit a record $172 billion in 2023, the Merchant Payments Coalition estimates.
Banks received some long-awaited news last week: the Federal Reserve voted to cap fees charged to retailers on debit card transactions at roughly 24 cents per transaction, down from an average of ...
A complex set of variables, including the card type and even merchant type, determine these fees, though the Nilson Report estimates that they average around 2.2 percent. These fees are largely ...