Re:Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
by prattmic on Friday January 23, 2026 @12:10AM
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How does this work when using a US credit card in the EU? I assume the merchant still pays the lower interchange fee, so are the banks just betting that customers won’t do a large proportion of spending abroad?
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Re:Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
by kasey_junk on Friday January 23, 2026 @06:37AM
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They exempt those transactions from rewards.