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If you think swipe fees dropped with inflation, guess again. Last year they were $18.6 billion. Since 85% of holiday purchases will be made with credit or debit cards, that small amount of cash ...
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 ...
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]
She said swipe fees have become a particular problem since the pandemic, when the use of cash plummeted. Most people use cards now, which means the roughly 3% swipe fee she pays eats up a lot more ...
Currently, swipe fees average about 2% per transaction and are only lowered by “at least 0.04 percentage points.” This means on a $100 sale, the $2 fee will be reduced to a maximum of $1.96.
The remaining $2, known as the merchant discount [16] and fees, gets divided up. About $1.75 would go to the card issuing bank (defined as interchange), $0.18 would go to Visa or MasterCard association (defined as assessments), and the remaining $0.07 would go to the retailer's merchant account provider.
At an average 2% to 4% of the purchase price, swipe fees account for up to 60 cents of the $15 or so it costs to buy a package of Oreos, a jar of peanut butter, one of jelly, and a loaf of bread.
Nationally, U.S. merchants paid an estimated $93 billion in Visa and Mastercard credit card fees in 2022, according to Nilson Report — up from $26 billion in 2010. Even more alarming, Visa and ...