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PSR publishes final report on card acquiring market review
The UK’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has published its final report into its card acquiring market review. The document sets...
EuroCommerce petitions for more interchange fee regulation as card fees continue to rise
EuroCommerce Director-General Christian Verschueren has pressed the European Commission to act on the growing problems facing retailers and wholesalers resulting...
Upcoming revision of the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR)
Payments Europe welcomes that the European Commission has started assessing the impact and consequences of the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR)...
EC fines Mastercard €570 million over cross-border interchange fees
The European Commission has fined Mastercard a meaty €570.6 million ($648.3 million) for limiting the possibility for merchants to benefit from...
Feature: Is it all change for interchange?
In recent years, interchange rates have come under increasing pressure from a variety of judicial reviews by the US Federal...
Impact of the Interchange Fee Regulation on the European cards market – 18 months on
It is now almost 18 months since the introduction of the Interchange Fee Regulation. IFR covered a good deal more...
Interchange Fee caps shaking up the market for acquirers
The merchant acquiring market in Europe is operating on solid grounds of continuous transaction growth, however the cost pressures in...
Six months after interchange regulation: have card products changed?
First Annapolis has been closely monitoring the product offerings of the top issuers in several European markets in order to...