The bipartisan Credit Card Competition Act, reintroduced earlier this month, is supported by the restaurant industry but ...

Retiring Senator Dick Durbin has spent more than a decade pushing to force competition into the credit card payment system.

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 ...

The act is a a bipartisan effort to restore competition and transparency to a credit card system dominated by a Visa–Mastercard duopoly that has become a major driver of higher costs for small ...

FMI enthusiastically endorses the reintroduction of the Credit Card Competition Act and praises Sens. Marshall and Durbin and Reps. Gooden and Lofgren for their steadfast leadership in bringing credit ...

Shoppers who rely on plastic for their weekly runs at Walmart and Target are about to feel a new kind of sticker shock. A ...

President Donald Trump has endorsed U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin’s plan to lower swipe fees, which are 2-to-4% fees charged to ...

Total fees increased by more than $15 billion from the previous year. Last December, Rovertown partnered with Weigel's and St. Romain Oil Co., operator of Y-Not Stop c-stores, to integrate swipe fee ...

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A proposal is moving through the Kansas Legislature that would ban credit card networks from applying fees to sales taxes and tips. If passed, the measure would unlock immediate savings for the ...

This article discusses how debit and credit cards work, including their pros and cons. It ends with some helpful tips and ...