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The bill aimed to restrict anti-competitive practices and encourage competition, and included provisions which allow retailers to refuse to use credit cards for small purchases and offer incentives for using cash or another type of card. [8] The Durbin amendment also gave the Federal Reserve the power to regulate debit card interchange fees ...
The Durbin Amendment, part of the Dodd-Frank Act, set a cap on the amount financial How Durbin's Debit Card Fee Cut Backfired on Small Merchants Skip to main content
Dodd-Frank required the Federal Reserve to write rules for swipe fees on debit card purchases. [18] 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 ...
The second part of Durbin's proposal would allow merchants to set minimum and maximum transaction amounts, and also allow them to offer customers a discount for using a debit card rather than a ...
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.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up a case asking the Federal Reserve to lower the cap on debit card “swipe fees.” An amendment by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act ...
The "Durbin amendment" [33] is a provision in the final bill aimed at reducing debit card interchange fees for merchants and increasing competition in payment processing. The provision was not in the House bill; [23] it began as an amendment to the Senate bill from Dick Durbin [34] and led to lobbying against it. [35]
The Federal Reserve is preparing to issue its final rule on the controversial debit card "swipe fees" Wednesday, a move that could potentially lead to less favorable interest rates on high-yield ...