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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 ...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in its October 2013 report on the CARD Act found that between the first quarter of 2009 and December 2012, credit card interest rates increased on average from 16.2% to 18.5%, while the “total cost of credit,” that is, the total of all fees and interest paid by all consumers as a percentage of the ...
English: These Regulations comply with the obligations to designate competent authorities, lay down rules on penalties and take measures for the settlement of disputes under Articles 13 to 15 of Regulation (EU) 2015-751 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29th April 2015 on interchange fees for card-based payment transactions (OJ L 123, 19.5.2013, p.1.) (“the interchange fee ...
Major provisions of the CARD Act – or the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 – go into effect today that create new credit. Today may well be the first day ...
The Citi Simplicity card charges no late fees, no penalty rate and has one single interest rate for purchases, balance transfers and cash advances. That eliminates the so-called "gotchas" that can ...
In testimony before the Senate, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra rejected arguments by banks that capping late fees would force them recover the lost revenue by charging ...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector.CFPB's jurisdiction includes banks, credit unions, securities firms, payday lenders, mortgage-servicing operations, foreclosure relief services, debt collectors, for-profit colleges, and other financial companies operating in the ...
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 ...