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Navigating the future of overdraft fees: Insights for debit card issuers

The Payments Association

New regulations will cap overdraft fees, drastically reducing them from around $30 to approximately $3, significantly impacting banks' revenue streams. Read more

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Are Debit Card Surcharges Legal? What Businesses Need to Know

Stax

In the complicated world of payment processing, understanding the nuances of debit card and credit card payments, along with associated processing fees, is essential for businesses. TL;DR Card brands such as Visa and MasterCard along with state and federal laws prohibit debit card surcharging.

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Navigating the future of overdraft fees: Insights for debit card issuers

The Payments Association

New regulations will cap overdraft fees, drastically reducing them from around $30 to approximately $3, significantly impacting banks' revenue streams. Read more

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Processing Costs: Differences in Debit & Credit Cards

Basis Theory

How Credit and Debit Cards Compare The fundamental difference between a credit and debit card is whose money is being used in the transaction: with a credit card, the consumer is borrowing from the card issuer , while with a debit card they are using their own money, stored with the issuing bank.

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New Data: Twice As Many Online Shoppers Believe Credit Cards Are More Secure Than Debit Cards

PYMNTS

One of the more notable differences is their tendency to favor credit cards online and other options such as digital wallets over debit cards. Thirty-five percent of credit card users believe they offer protection against theft of funds — twice the share of debit card users with this same view of the payment method.

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WaveCrest adds EMV for prepaid debit cards

Payments Source

Certain prepaid debit card issuers who didn’t initially adopt EMV technology — because of a lower perceived security threat for these limited-use cards — are now going the EMV route.

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Debit routing rule tables turned on regulators

Payments Dive

Bank card issuers say there isn’t enough network competition to meet the July debit card routing rule deadline, adopting regulators’ argument to push back.

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