The Credit Card Competition Act, introduced in 2023, is legislation that would “enhance competition and choice in the credit card network market, which is currently dominated by the Visa-Mastercard ...

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As part of the proposed settlement, the credit card companies will temporarily lower the swipe fees for merchants. But not everyone sees this as a satisfying end to a legal battle that stretched on ...

Visa and Mastercard have proposed a settlement in their long-running legal dispute with merchants and retailers over how much they charge merchants to accept their cards. The most important part of ...

After years of legal back and forth, major retailers may be changing their credit card payment policies and consumers could ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A proposed Visa-Mastercard settlement would allow merchants to reject high-reward credit cards, potentially ...