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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. Credit card - Wikipedia

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    These fees are typically from 1 to 6 percent of each sale but will vary not only from merchant to merchant (large merchants can negotiate lower rates [91]), but also from card to card, with business cards and rewards cards generally costing the merchants more to process. The interchange fee that applies to a particular transaction is also ...

  5. Merchant account - Wikipedia

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    A typical credit card terminal popular in 2005, now typically out of use and of a style/era usually non-compliant per PCI-DSS standards. A credit card terminal is a stand-alone piece of electronic equipment that allows a merchant to swipe or key-enter a credit card's information as well as additional information required to process a credit card transaction.

  6. Payment protection insurance - Wikipedia

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    Payment protection insurance. Payment protection insurance ( PPI ), also known as credit insurance, credit protection insurance, or loan repayment insurance, is an insurance product that enables consumers to ensure repayment of credit if the borrower dies, becomes ill, disabled, loses a job, or faces other circumstances that may prevent them ...

  7. Providian - Wikipedia

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    Providian was a company that sold credit in the "subprime" market. Providian provided credit cards primarily to the lowest income groups in the U.S. at high interest rates. The annual percentage rates (APR) charged by Providian were as high as 29.9 percent. In a March 1999 memorandum published by the San Francisco Chronicle, the founder of the ...

  8. How a new credit card can fight against inflation - AOL

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    One surprising solution for combating the negative impacts of inflation may be opening a new credit card that allows you to offset higher costs with cash back savings and other rewards. But while ...

  9. 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]