Ever since U.S. Senators Dick Durbin of Illinois and Roger Marshall of Kansas introduced the Credit Card Competition Act last year, we haven’t been surprised at the bipartisan support the legislation has received. After all, the bill promises to contain credit card acceptance costs for merchants, and to do it …

More than 10 years after Visa Inc. wrote its rules permitting surcharging on its credit cards, questions remain among acquirers, especially those selling or considering surcharge programs for their merchants. Now, as more merchants mull surcharge or cash-discount programs to alleviate some of their card-acceptance costs, and with recent changes …

Payments provider Paysafe Ltd. announced it will integrate network tokens from Visa to mask credit and debit card account numbers. The Federal Reserve Board announced an average 1.8% increase in pricing for established services such as check clearing and automated clearing house transactions, with pricing for the FedNow real-time network, which launched in July, …

More than 10 years after Visa Inc. wrote its rules permitting surcharging on its credit cards, questions remain among acquirers, especially those selling or considering surcharge programs for their merchants. Now, as more merchants mull surcharge or cash-discount programs to alleviate some of their card-acceptance costs, and with recent changes …

The Federal Reserve Board is set to revisit its longstanding limit on debit card interchange on Wednesday, and most observers expect the Fed to lower it. But ask Visa Inc. about the matter—as analysts did Tuesday afternoon during the network’s September-quarter earnings call—and its top executives outwardly at least profess …

Visa Inc. announced it will start a pilot in November for Visa AR Manager, a platform intended to automate more functions in commercial card acceptance. PayNearMe, a specialist in payments for iGaming and sports betting, will add to its MoneyLine platform the “Cardless Cash at ATM” feature from NCR Atleos Corp. …