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Re:Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card in... by KRAKRISMOTT on Friday May 19, 2023 @01:05AM (#35997985)
They are low level infra companies that exist because of regulatory capture. I am referring to companies like X1 and to some extent Ramp. The high level fintechs driving consumer innovation like electronic wallets, interesting rebate card models, better banking UXes all require interchange fees. This is also why most consumer fintechs start in the US and UK first before expanding elsewhere.
Re:Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card in... by arcticbull on Friday May 19, 2023 @02:54AM (#35998624)
I guess I would flip that around and say that the fintechs are providing services that are worth paying the mark-up for - not the other way around.
Re:Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card in... by Symbiote on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:00AM (#35999046)
The UK was part of the EU until recently, and still maintains the card transaction fee cap regulation.
Re:Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card in... by rjmunro on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:31AM (#35999298)
No it doesn't. It was one of the first "Brexit freedoms" the government took advantage of. That's why Amazon had a spat with Visa: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/visa-mastercard-agree-lower-averag...

The article is wrong here.

Re:Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card in... by arcticbull on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:46AM (#35999374)
Interchange in the UK remains capped at the same 0.2% for debit and 0.3% for credit rate that applied in the EEA prior to Brexit. What changed was that this cap only applies when the issuer, acquirer and merchant are within the UK. Therefore, UK-EEA transactions are no longer covered. [1]

[1] https://www.barclaycard.co.uk/content/dam/barclaycard/docume...

Re:Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card in... by erincandescent on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:50AM (#35999399)
The UK didn't scrap the Interchange Fees Regulation; but as a matter of law there became two separate IFRs, one covering the EEA-cards-in-EEA and one covering UK-cards-in-UK

(To put it bluntly, a big amendment was automatically applied to most UK laws on exit day replacing EU & EEA with UK; and of course in the EU the definition of both of those words changed)

Re:Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card in... by rjmunro on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @11:43AM (#36045983)
So why did Amazon threaten to stop taking Visa cards? Do they not have a UK bank account?