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2. Payment card interchange fee and merchant discount antitrust ...

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   The payment card interchange fee and merchant discount antitrust litigation is a United States class-action lawsuit filed in 2005 by merchants and trade associations against Visa, Mastercard, and numerous financial institutions that issue payment cards. The suit was filed because of price fixing and other allegedly anti-competitive trade ...

3. Interchange fee - Wikipedia

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   Interchange fee is a term used in the payment card industry to describe a fee paid between banks for the acceptance of card-based transactions. Usually for sales/services transactions it is a fee that a merchant's bank (the "acquiring bank") pays a customer's bank (the "issuing bank"). In a credit card or debit card transaction, the card ...

4. Surcharge (payment systems) - Wikipedia

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   Surcharge (payment systems) A surcharge, also known as checkout fee, is an extra fee charged by a merchant when receiving a payment by cheque, credit card, charge card or debit card (but not cash) which at least covers the cost to the merchant of accepting that means of payment, such as the merchant service fee imposed by a credit card company. [1]

5. How credit card companies make money - AOL

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   The annual fee you may pay, as well as the interchange fees you generate each time you use your card, all contribute to the credit card issuer’s revenue. There are costs for the privilege and ...

6. Lower Mastercard and Visa Swipe Fees Are Coming - AOL

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   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 ...

7. Merchant category code - Wikipedia

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   MCCs are assigned either by merchant type (e.g., one for hotels, one for office supply stores, etc.) or by merchant name (e.g., 3000 for United Airlines [1]) and is assigned to a merchant by a credit card company when the business first starts accepting that card as a form of payment. [2]

8. Credit card swipe fees add to consumers' costs, but here's a ...

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   Credit Card Competition Act would fix a broken payments market. Swipe fees are ultimately paid by consumers, totaling $1.8 billion in Tennessee last year. Nationwide, they have more than doubled ...

9. Credit card - Wikipedia

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   Merchants are charged several fees for accepting credit cards. The merchant is usually charged a commission of around 0.5 to 4 percent of the value of each transaction paid for by credit card. [74] The merchant may also pay a variable charge, called a merchant discount rate, for each transaction. [69]