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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 ...
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 was $30.7 billion, and the increase totals 85 percent compared to 2001.
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.
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 ...
Before congressional passage of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law that directed the Fed to cap swipe fees, retailers paid as much as 44 cents per transaction, which had made it hard for ...
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.
A decoupled debit card is a debit card in the US that is not issued by and not tied to any particular retail financial institution, such as a bank or credit union.This is based on the ability in the US ACH Network payment system to make an electronic payment from any bank or credit union without needing to use a card issued by the bank or credit union.
The settlement called for the average swipe fee to fall at least 0.04 percentage points for three years, and stay at least 0.07 percentage points below the current average for five years.