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merchants, more than 90 percent of which are small businesses, lowering credit interchange rates and capping those rates into 2030. The agreement will cap the reduced credit interchange rates for five years, providing an unprecedented level of cost certainty long sought by merchants. merchants, comprised largely of small businesses.
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