Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dan Gingiss covers news impacting your customers and employees. With Visa and Mastercard recently reaching a settlement on a ...

Our Financial Services Group summarizes the closely observed preliminary settlement agreement over the fees credit card companies and banks charge merchants. Interchange fee rates would be reduced and ...

On Friday, March 22nd, 2024, it was announced that American Express will be sued over its merchant fees in a lawsuit held at Rhode Island federal court. 5,155 merchants claim that Amex’s high fees – ...

Merchants’ disdain for interchange is well documented, but one aspect of card-acceptance costs that gets drowned out by the outcry over interchange is that rising processing fees are hitting merchants ...