— -- When gas prices edged above $4 a gallon earlier this spring, the Merchants Payments Coalition, a group that represents retailers, said "hidden fees" charged by banks and card processing ...

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Credit cards and debit cards look almost exactly alike but are actually quite different. Money you spend or withdraw using a debit card comes straight out of your bank account – you’re spending your ...

It may soon be time to rethink the automatic usage of a debit card, which unlike a credit card is tied to actual money held in a bank account, and which has been the preferred plastic of consumers ...

St. Louis Park now charges up to a 3% fee for city services paid with credit or debit cards to offset processing costs, but ...

But looking at the fine print that came with his new unemployment debit card, he became livid. "A $1.50 [fee] here, a $1.50 there," he said. "Forty cents for a balance inquiry. Fifty cents to have ...

The latest figures from the Fed show that, in 2023, merchants paid for 49.9% of debit card fraud, up from 46.9% in 2021. The ...

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A North Dakota truck stop wants a federal judge to find that the Federal Reserve Board violated the law by neglecting to crack down on mushrooming debit card transaction fees. The fees — which apply ...

Payments made with credit and debit cards will now include a transaction and processing fee. Fort Smith paid over $800,000 in transaction fees in 2024. The city of Fort Smith is no longer absorbing ...