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Alternative payment firms capitalize on Amazon-Visa tensions
Small banks, credit unions push back against Fed debit-routing proposal
Amazon takes page from Walmart's playbook to fight Visa's fees
North Dakota retailers sue Fed, demand lower debit fees
Visa, Mastercard face new pushback in $5.5 billion retailer suit
Visa and Mastercard are facing fresh opposition from U.S. retailers in a long-running legal fight over the fees merchants pay each time consumers swipe their credit or debit card at checkout. ]] ... Read full article
Card brands postpone fee hike, but merchants want interchange reform
Mastercard and Visa's one-year delay is only a partial victory for retailers, who want the networks to have less power to set rates. ]] ... Read full article
Visa, Mastercard to delay merchant fee hikes another year
Visa and Mastercard are postponing plans to boost the fees U.S. merchants pay when consumers use credit cards online, pushing back the changes another year to April 2022 because of the pandemic. ]] ... Read full article
How soon will fee income rebound at credit unions?
Noninterest income from Paycheck Protection loans and mortgage refinancings isn't enough to make up for shortfalls elsewhere, and growth prospects are hard to identify. ... Read full article
How soon will fee income rebound at credit unions?
Noninterest income from Paycheck Protection loans and mortgage refinancings isn't enough to make up for shortfalls elsewhere, and growth prospects are hard to identify. ... Read full article
Big banks, Big Tech face off over swipe fees
A showdown between megabanks such as JPMorgan Chase and the likes of Apple and PayPal could be the prelude to a broader fight. ... Read full article
Banks keep piling credit card fees on retailers. Congress must act.
The fees banks charge to merchants have skyrocketed because people are making more purchases using their credit cards during the pandemic. Lawmakers can cap these fees before they further eat into retailers' profits. ... Read full article
Mastercard suffers legal setback in European interchange battle
The U.K. Supreme Court has rejected Mastercard’s attempt to force individual lawsuits over claims the card brand overcharged consumers and negatively impacted competition for more than a decade. ... Read full article
Credit unions buckle up for an unpredictable holiday season
The pandemic has altered a variety of consumer behaviors, and that could make a difference in what sort of interchange and interest revenue financial institutions see in their credit and debit portfolios as they close out 2020. ... Read full article
Customers have turned cautious and banks are getting pinched
Deposits have piled up, curtailing overdrafts and other fees. The trend could force lenders to find other ways to make money — or start cutting to the bone. ... Read full article
The Fed's move to tweak bank stress tests; Wirecard CEO quits as money hunt continues
Big banks will need to show how well they can withstand three different scenarios before they can pay dividends; the German payments company is still looking for $2 billion of missing funds. ... Read full article
Axos banking partnership with H&R Block in jeopardy
H&R Block intends to break off the relationship since the parties have been unable to restructure compensation to reflect new interchange fee caps at Axos. ... Read full article
Coronavirus deals blow to interchange income
Stay-at-home orders and business shutdowns have led to a sharp decline in consumer use of credit and debit cards. ... Read full article
Card brands delay spring swipe-fee update to July, citing coronavirus' effect on retail
With coronavirus presenting significant challenges for retailers and the technical challenges of imposing interchange fee changes in the networks, Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover are holding off on the updates. ... Read full article
Why Congress considered a digital dollar in its coronavirus response
The coronavirus stimulus package has resurrected calls for the U.S. government to offer a central bank digital currency, public mobile wallets and postal banking—controversial ideas that are hard to pull off, but exist outside the U.S. and could dent ... Read full article
