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Interchange fee

An interchange fee is a fee paid between banks for the acceptance of card-based transactions. Usually for sales/services transactions it is a fee that a merchant's bank (the "acquiring bank") pays a customer's bank (the "issuing bank").

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Interchange fee

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Triples84
Avg. degree1.94
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Interchange fee

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related to Australia and New Zealand · 18
Interchange fee → Act, All, Australia, Autumn, Competition, Consumer Amendment, In, In February, MasterCard, New Zealand, New Zealand Commerce Commission, New Zealand Government, One, Payment Surcharges, Reserve Bank, Shortly, The Commission, Visa
related to European Union · 15
Interchange fee → Article, Commissioner Neelie Kroes, December, EC Treaty, European Commission, Fair Trading, However, In, In January, MasterCard, Office, The, United Kingdom, Upon, Visa's
related to history · 11
Interchange fee → Banks, Georgetown University Law Center, Issuing, Often, Professor Adam Levitin, Research, Situations, The, Truth-in-Lending, Typically, Western Union
related to Who pays · 10
Interchange fee → Australia, Government Accountability Office, In, Many, PIN-based, Some, The, This, United States, Wal-Mart
related to overview · 8
Interchange fee → EU, Further, In, Interchange, MasterCard, These, United States, Visa
related to Consumer welfare · 6
Interchange fee → American, Because, Eliminating, Federal Reserve, Reducing, The Merchants Payments Coalition
related to Price-fixing · 6
Interchange fee → Issuing, Merchant, Merchant Bill, Merchants Payments Coalition, Regulators, Rights
related to Merchant fee · 4
Interchange fee → Interchange, MasterCard, This, Visa
is a · 1
Interchange fee → fee paid between banks for the acceptance of card-based transactions

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Interchange feeis afee paid between banks for the acceptance of card-based transactions0.90text
Visainstance ofat which time the matter of whether cash and credit prices were to be forced by law to give an advantage to those paying cash.Interchange fees are set by the payment networks0.80text
MasterCardinstance ofat which time the matter of whether cash and credit prices were to be forced by law to give an advantage to those paying cash.Interchange fees are set by the payment networks0.80text
Wal-Mart have the ability to negotiate fee pricesinstance ofMany large merchants0.80text
and while some merchants prefer cash or PIN-based debit cardsinstance ofMany large merchants0.80text
most believe they cannot realistically refuse to accept the major card networkinstance ofMany large merchants0.80text
Interchange feerelated to Australia and New ZealandIn0.60section
Interchange feerelated to Australia and New ZealandReserve Bank0.60section
Interchange feerelated to Australia and New ZealandAustralia0.60section
Interchange feerelated to Australia and New ZealandOne0.60section
Interchange feerelated to Australia and New ZealandVisa0.60section
Interchange feerelated to Australia and New ZealandMasterCard0.60section

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