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Debit Card Surcharging: Is It Legal?

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Usually, there’s a cap: you can’t charge more than 4% of the transaction amount. One of the most significant is the Durbin Amendment – part of the Dodd-Frank Act , which was passed after the 2008 financial crisis. Most networks do allow credit card surcharging – but they don’t leave it wide open.

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Mastercard, Visa play down stablecoin threat

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Published July 17, 2025 Patrick Cooley Reporter post share post print email license People walk by a window sticker advertising Visa and MasterCard credit cards February 25, 2008 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan via Getty Images Visa and Mastercard, the two biggest U.S. By Lynne Marek • Aug.

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China Eyes Limits On Bank, FinTech Partnerships

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A cap also would support competition, he said, according to Reuters. "We Reuters reported that Chinese officials last week invoked a pro-competition law for the first time since its 2008 inception to levy fines against companies such as Ma's Alibaba Group. Jiwei was speaking at a wealth management conference.

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Banking Innovation Enters New Era; Consolidation Now The Rule

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These are $100 billion market cap companies that are sitting in the middle of the payments supply chain.”. Lukies said that prior to the 2008 financial crisis, regulators and the like normally left banks to their own devices, as long as they didn’t mess it up so that people couldn’t pay their bills or go shopping.

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Rhode Island Eyes Capping Credit Card Interest Rates

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The $870 billion aforementioned tally, the Federal Reserve estimated earlier this month, marks the first time credit card balances reached 2008 nominal peaks. In Rhode Island, there seems to be a groundswell to limit the interest rates that can be charged on card balances, at least in that state.

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Fed Asks Banks To Be Lenient With Lending, Telecom Companies Won’t Cancel Service

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After the financial crash in 2008, banks saved up billions in reserves to make sure that they would be able to handle times of market stress and be able to keep lending. Comcast said it would raise speeds, and AT&T said it would waive data caps. The Fed is basically telling banks to dip into those reserves if they have to.

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Infographic: Microsoft’s Biggest Acquisitions

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Fast Search & Transfer ($1.2B, 2008) developed software solutions focusing on enterprise search. Microsoft has spent over $63B for its top 10 deals (roughly 7% of its current market cap ). It is now known as Microsoft Development Center Norway. KEY TAKEAWAYS . All of the top 10 deals had valuations greater than $1B.