Sales at First Data's other two businesses (payment processing for merchants and credit card services), which had a combined 21% operating margin, were flat.
Visitors who previously had to travel with wads of cash can soon look forward to merchants accepting credit and debit cards and new ATMs making it possible to take out cash as needed.
So a week later when I started getting phone numbers from merchants and credit card companies that--asking me about charges, it was pretty easy to track back and figure out where they had gotten my Social Security number from.
Barclaycard is a multi-brand credit card and consumer lending business which also processes card payments for retailers and merchants and issues credit and charge cards to corporate customers and the UK Government.
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The overdraft decision came just months before the Dodd-Frank law halved what financial institutions could charge merchants for accepting credit and debit cards.
Merchants who accept credit cards issued by Visa and MasterCard will be allowed to add a service charge to the purchase price.
Until now, merchants who accept credit cards have been prohibited by their card agreements from offering discounts based on the form in which customers pay.
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Banks are frightened that if they offered cheaper debit fees, many merchants might quit accepting credit cards altogether.
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"This standard is now in place for all merchants globally who accept credit cards--no exceptions, " says Bill Bradley, senior industry marketing manager for Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, Mass.
Visa and MasterCard rules have long prohibited merchants from charging customers more for credit-card transactions.
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In the whole of China, only 40, 000 merchants are equipped to swipe a credit card.
Visa and MasterCard affiliates issue most debit cards, so merchants that accept Visa and MasterCard credit cards also accept the debit cards.
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Credit card revenues are comprised of finance charges, late fees, and third party merchant fees, or the amounts received from merchants who accept the Target Visa credit card.
Italian Colors, where lawyers want to bring a class action accusing Amex of violating antitrust laws by requiring merchants to accept Amex debit and credit cards at the same fee level.
An NFC-based mobile payments service that lets consumers make payments to merchants and other consumers via a credit or debit card, directly from their bank account or using credit stored in their iTunes account.
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These systems allow merchants to manage customer purchases made by credit, debit and gift cards.
You may be very careful with your credit card, but the merchants charging it may not.
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Merchants can use the software to accept credit cards, PayPal or ACH, the latter useful for large payments.
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Credit card companies had prohibited merchants from passing on that surcharge, but a ruling this past July changed that.
Last week, the Senate passed an amendment sponsored by Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) that could reduce interchange fees that credit card processors charge to merchants and allow stores to give customers discounts for paying with cash, check or debit cards.
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Last year Visa and MasterCard settled a legal dispute with a group of merchants claiming collusion on the part of credit card issuers in fixing swipe fees, the amount the credit card companies charge a merchant for each transaction.
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Smaller merchants have thrived on consumer purchases made with credit and debit cards over the past decade.
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Merchants in many markets resent the fees American credit card giants exact.
As part of that settlement, the credit card companies had to allow merchants the freedom to pass along swipe fees to customers if they choose to do so.
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The fees credit card transaction processing networks charge merchants for each swipe of certain debit cards have been limited since the regulation change was enacted last year.
Without a coordinating agency solving the problem for an unlimited number of providers (as credit card companies do with affected merchants), medical victims are stuck with convincing every doctor, clinic, hospital and insurance provider that a stranger is in the room.
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The payment service lets U.S. merchants and businesses that run Groupon daily deals accept credit card payments at a lower rate than other providers.
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