A bipartisan bill focused on credit-card swipe fees has failed to gain traction for years, but it has another shot in the U.S ...

The Illinois General Assembly pushed back by a year implementation of its controversial Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, ...

Credit card swipe fees, which are among the highest operating costs for retailers, are taking a bite out of household budgets, according to industry experts. When a credit or debit card is used ...

Click here to read more. Combined swipe fees for credit cards and debit cards rose more than $15 billion from $172 billion in 2023, per the Nilson Report trade publication. This also marked a 70% ...

If shopping for the holidays seems more expensive this year, blame credit card "swipe fees." This is what credit card companies charge stores when you use credit cards — and you can bet that fee ...

Mac Hay owns a bunch of seafood restaurants and markets on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and he said that credit card swipe fees are sort of like taxes. “You just kinda take it as a fact.

This story originally appeared on Spotlight PA. A bill that aims to slightly lower credit card “swipe fees” is moving quickly through the Pennsylvania House. But it faces long odds in the state Senate ...

Many consumers are unaware that when they tap, insert, or swipe their credit card at grocery stores like ours, the business is on the hook to pay a fee to the credit card company and bank.

Credit card swipe charges, also known as interchange fees, are one such fee, which is charged every time a transaction is made through a credit card. The card network determines this fee.

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania.