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The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing today on Capitol Hill to discuss legislation that would require Visa Inc. and MasterCard Worldwide to negotiate interchange rates with merchants, with the U.S. Department of Justice overseeing those negotiations.
Several bills have been introduced in Congress seeking to give merchants more ability to negotiate interchange, which is largely unregulated.
The Senate version of the bill will empower retailers to negotiate interchange fees with banks and credit card companies, with disagreements to be settled by a three-person, independent arbitration panel.
These findings are hardly surprising because smaller merchants, as well as those that rely mainly on small-ticket purchases, regularly negotiated discounted interchange fees prior to Durbin.
Costco, the nation's largest membership warehouse chain, negotiated a lower interchange rate with American Express and does not take Visa and MasterCard in its stores.
It is also indisputable that the parties in this market negotiated their debit interchange fees prior to Durbin, and that banks and network companies charged very different prices to different customers.
"It would theoretically allow merchants to negotiate a lower cost of interchange, which right now is out of control and growing," he said.
The two-seat electric runabouts, which will negotiate urban traffic, traverse complex interchanges and brave mall parking lots with no human intervention, stand to change the definition of getting around for a generation of motorists.
However, for most smaller merchants — indeed, for most merchants over all — the interchange fee is concealed within a negotiated rate, Mr. Manfred said.
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