​American merchants paid $198.25 billion in credit and debit card swipe fees in 2025, up 5.9% from the year before. When an owner sees that line on a statement, the instinct is often the same: Pass it ...

Credit card surcharges are becoming harder to spot, but knowing the rules can help you avoid unnecessary fees at checkout.

Visa and Mastercard announced Monday that they reached a proposed settlement that would lower charges that merchants pay to the credit card networks. While those fees are paid by the store every time ...

REA Group, Shell Energy, Dicker Data and others have added a “supplier trade fee” to continue charging business customers a ...

In a Truth Social post, President Trump backed a bill called the Credit Card Competition Act (sometimes called the Durbin-Marshall credit card mandate), saying it will help put an end to what he calls ...

Walmart and other retailers argue that forcing them to stay in a swipe-fee settlement class violates their due process rights.

Banks are sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump's call for a 10% cap on credit card rates, though merchant groups are applauding another move from the President that could tighten card ...

Cashless payments have become the norm, and opportunities to use credit cards have increased. However, just because we pay ...