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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 ...
The case is In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, No 05-md-01720. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New ...
In the EU, interchange fees are capped to 0.3% of the transaction for credit cards and to 0.2% for debit cards, while there is no cap for corporate cards. [3] In the US, card issuers now make over $30 billion annually from interchange fees. Interchange fees collected by Visa [4] and MasterCard [5] totaled $26 billion in 2004. In 2005 the number ...
Some fees are set by the merchant account provider, but the majority of the per-item and percentage fees are passed through the merchant account provider to the credit card issuing bank according to a schedule of rates called interchange fees, which are set by Visa, Discover, and MasterCard. Interchange fees vary depending on card type and the ...
The settlement is set to lower swipe fees merchants pay when customers make purchases using their Visa or Mastercard by $30 billion over five years, according to a press release announcing the ...
The Durbin amendment also gave the Federal Reserve the power to regulate debit card interchange fees, and on December 16, 2010, the Fed proposed a maximum interchange fee of 12 cents per debit card transaction, [9] which CardHub.com estimated would cost large banks $14 billion annually. [10]
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3.2.1.4 Payment card interchange fee and merchant discount antitrust litigation 3.2.1.5 Confrontation with Walmart over high fees 3.2.1.6 Dispute with Kroger over high credit card fees