The Merchant Security Blog

By Tim Kridel
ISOs can count on continuing uncertainty as the battle rages over interchange rates. No one knows when the National Retail Federation and the card brands will resolve their differences or how that resolution might affect ISOs and agents. Meanwhile, most merchants know little and care less about how the card brands set interchange […]

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Mike as one of a couple of people saying that publication of interchange rates has had little impact:
“A lot of merchants don’t even know that [publication] happened,” Fox says. “They still don’t know what interchange is.”
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On whether interchange reduction or elimination would result in lower prices for consumers:
“If interchange were abolished, would they bring prices […]