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Fed proposes reduction in debit fee cap

Payments Dive

The Federal Reserve Board proposed a rule change that would slash the amount card issuers can charge merchants for processing a debit transaction. The proposal also calls for periodic updates to the fee cap in the future.

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Frustrated Merchants Seek Federal Intervention on Debit Routing

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Citing a growing frustration with how the EMV transition has interfered with merchants' options for PIN debit transaction routing and authorization, the Merchant Advisory Group for the first time is asking federal auditors to examine the practices of some debit card issuers.

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AI for Debit Routing: Saving on Debit Transactions

Cardfellow

Signature Debit Costs Maximizing Your Savings with AI Debit Routing One Caveat to Debit Routing Savings Debit Routing Background In order to cover the possible benefits of AI for debit routing, its important to have a solid understanding of what debit routing is and how it happens now.

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Deep Dive: Why ML Plays A Key Role In Debit Issuers' Fraud-Fighting Strategies

PYMNTS

Debit card issuers face an ever-growing array of fraud schemes perpetrated against them and their account holders. Effective card offerings require financial institutions (FIs) to quickly and accurately detect myriad forms of fraud, forcing them into a delicate balancing act. Security challenges are mounting, too.

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Surcharges Re-Enter The Merchant Transaction Fee Debate

PYMNTS

“We have a compliant surcharge program that, depending on certain geographies and certain card types, is able to track it in a way that complies with the state regulations and card regulations, and just makes it easier for the merchant to conduct business,” Hodges said in a recent interview with PYMNTS.

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Deep Dive: How Payment Card Networks Win Merchants Over

PYMNTS

Major worldwide credit card networks turned their attention to the debit market in the 2000s, however, and acquired PIN networks to gain footholds in the growing space. These larger operators sometimes made deals with card issuers, under which the latter would agree to only route payments over the former’s networks.

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FICO’s Take On Debit Security

PYMNTS

The data of 4 million breached debit and credit cards was even posted for sale in late 2019, stolen from four restaurant chains between April and September 2019, and recently made available for purchase on Joker’s Stash, an online black market. A Big-Picture Approach To Thwarting Debit Fraud.