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Re:A brief history of credit cards by thesimon on Monday July 31, 2017 @04:06AM (#14890235)
Most of the fee goes to the issuer, the part Visa/MasterCard earn is quite small.

AMEX of course earns a bit more due to the nature of a three party scheme.

Edit: 0.02% - 0.05% of the transaction is usually the scheme fee that goes to Visa/MasterCard.

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