Consumer News Visa, Mastercard Are Close To A Deal With Merchants — How It Could Change What Card You Use

Visa, Mastercard are close to a deal with merchants — how it could change what card you use

Visa/Mastercard may cut swipe fees a hair (about 0.1%), which helps stores but won’t show up as obvious price drops for shoppers Stores could get more power to favor cheaper cards and even say “no” to ... Read More

Will the Visa-Mastercard Settlement Be Bad News for Your Premium Credit Card?

Under the new proposal, Visa and Mastercard would lower swipe fees by an average of around 0.1 percentage point for several years and cap "standard" consumer card rates at 1.25% for eight years. But ... Read More

Here’s how the Visa, Mastercard swipe-fee settlement could affect you

Visa and Mastercard have reached a proposed settlement in a long-running legal fight with merchants and retailers that could determine which credit cards stores accept and whether shoppers face ... Read More

Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape

Visa and Mastercard are nearing a settlement with merchants that aims to end a 20-year-old legal dispute by lowering fees stores pay and giving them more power to reject certain credit cards, ... Read More

Visa and Mastercard might have a deal to lower merchant fees. Your rewards card could get hit

Visa and Mastercard have a potential deal with retailers that would lower fees for merchants, potentially lowering prices but threatening prized consumer rewards. The deal, which is still subject to ... Read More

Visa-Mastercard settlement could lead to rewards credit cards getting declined

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 ... Read More

‘We Take Visa, Just Not That One’: Are Credit Card Rules About to Change?

If approved by a court, a proposed settlement from Visa and Mastercard would, among other things, allow merchants to decline specific kinds of cards at checkout. Many or all of the products on this ... Read More

Visa and Mastercard might have a deal to lower merchant fees. Your rewards card could get hit

(CNN) — Visa and Mastercard have a potential deal with retailers that would lower fees for merchants, potentially lowering prices but threatening prized consumer rewards. (CNN) — Visa and Mastercard ... Read More

Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape

Visa V-0.31%decrease; red down pointing triangle and Mastercard MA 0.26%increase; green up pointing triangle are nearing a settlement with merchants that aims to end a 20-year-old legal dispute by ... Read More