Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Understanding the Federal Reserve Board Proposal to Lower Interchange Fee Cap for Debit Card Transactions
On April 18, the FDIC announced a consent order against a Delaware-based bank alleging that the bank engaged in unsafe and unsound banking practices and violated various federal consumer protection laws, including Section 5...more
On October 16, 2024, the Bank Policy Institute and the Clearing House Association filed a motion to intervene in Corner Post, Inc. v Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. On July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court sided...more
A very large class action settlement has an approaching deadline for class members to file claims. The class is very broad, defined as “all persons, businesses, and other entities that have accepted any Visa-Branded Cards...more
Our Financial Services Group summarizes the closely observed preliminary settlement agreement over the fees credit card companies and banks charge merchants....more
A proposed rule would lower the maximum amount that large debit card issuers can charge merchants for each transaction. On October 25, 2023, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB) published a proposal...more
The Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) proposes to lower fees for debit card purchases. The FRB announced proposed rulemaking to reset its Durbin Amendment cap on interchange fees to 17.7 cents on an average transaction from 24.5...more
Card network giants, Visa and Mastercard, are getting scrutinized by the Senate Judiciary Committee over an increase in swipe fees....more
Due to its concerns that card-acquiring services might not be offering value for money for merchants, the PSR decided to conduct a comprehensive review of the card-acquiring sector focussing on the impact of competition and...more
On January 24, 2019, Judge Margo K. Brodie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted preliminary approval of Visa and Mastercard’s second attempt to settle the 13-year old antitrust litigation...more
Visa, Inc., Mastercard, Inc., and other financial institutions have agreed to pay merchants between $5.56 billion and $6.26 billion to settle a 13-year old antitrust litigation. For years, the case has driven shrewd investors...more
The PSR is to consider whether there is effective competition in the market and makes clear that further reviews of the payments ecosystem could be triggered by its findings - The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has...more
The Second Circuit’s decision highlights that, whenever there are groups of plaintiffs that will obtain different categories of relief as a part of a settlement, both plaintiffs and defense counsel should seriously consider...more
In recent years, federal antitrust enforcers and businesses that accept payment cards have been waging a slow war against payment card fees and the card network rules that protect them. The payment card industry’s antitrust...more
On August 14, 2015, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Board) published a clarification (the Clarification) of the Board’s decision to include transactions-monitoring costs in establishing the 21-cent...more