The interchange fees provided vital revenue for issuers during a time of high defaults and losses.

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The interchange gave us a peek at what players talk about all the time yet few see it publicly: getting paid .

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Any interchange between the two, if it were possible, would have happened already in geologic time, measured in tens of millions of years, not in recent history.

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