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"Today's decision by the Federal District Court is a victory for consumers and small business around the country and will lead to lower interchange rates for billions of debit card transactions each year," Mr. Durbin said.
Merchants have long complained that Visa and MasterCard set the interchange rates for credit and debit cards at excessive levels as a way to entice banks to issue their cards.
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In Australia, where regulators required banks to cut the interchange rate for Visa and MasterCard purchases to 0.5percentt from 0.95percentthethe banks offset their loss by reducing rewards programs and raising annual fees, according to a 2008 report by the Government Accountability Office.
Despite a recent study that found swipe fees are stalling the creation of nearly a quarter million U.S. jobs, Visa raised its debit card interchange rate for American retailers to.95percentt plus $.20 per transaction in April, according to the Retail Industry Leaders Association.
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If you wade through the MasterCard interchange document I linked to above, you will see special interchange rates associated with different MCC codes.
Yes, the type of business you are in can affect the interchange rates.
Those interchange rates are published information — you can see Visa's fee structure here and MasterCard's here.
Scott Krugman, a spokesman for the National Retail Federation, notes that retailers have had to give up bigger portions of sales as interchange rates, or the price charged to swipe a credit card, have gone up.
Our first good look at interchange regulation was in Australia in 2003, when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) implemented regulation reducing interchange rates by 50percentt and eliminating rules forbidding retail merchants form charging fees at the checkout counter for customers who used payment cards.
The problem arises when politicians intervene to regulate the interchange rates that retail merchants pay.
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