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Retail trade group urges passage of bill that would reduce credit card ‘swipe fees,’ here’s why

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The National Retail Federation (NRF), the nation’s largest retail trade group, is urging Congress to pass the bipartisan Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA), saying it has the potential to save consumers and businesses $15 billion annually. 

The trade group even went as far as launching a six-figure advocacy campaign Monday to urge members of Congress to pass this bill. 

That CCCA – which is slated to receive a vote during this session of Congress, and could come as early as this week – is poised to enhance credit card competition and, subsequently, reduce excessive credit card fees for merchants. 

HOW CREDIT CARD SWIPE FEES ARE HITTING CONSUMERS

“Swipe fees” are payments credit card companies charge retailers every time a customer swipes their card. In recent years, these fees have “gone up at a drastic pace,” Dylan Jeon, NRF senior director of government relations, told FOX Business.  

The issue is that these are passed onto consumers in the form of higher prices from retailers. 

To date, swipe fees are now the second-highest operating cost after labor, according to Jeon. With retailers operating on such thin margins, they aren’t able to fully absorb the increase in costs, so they pass them on to the shopper. 

In 2022, there was a 20% jump in these fees compared to the year prior, effectively pushing up operating costs for retailers, according to Jeon. 

SMALL BUSINESSES DESERVE RELIEF FROM SOARING CREDIT CARD SWIPE FEES

Last year, while simultaneously facing inflationary pressures, the average American family paid over $1,000 through higher prices because of swipe fees

The NRF expects that figure to grow unless Congress can “correct this market and introduce more competition,” Joen argued. 

Currently, Visa and Mastercard have what some call a duopoly, essentially controlling 80% of the credit card market.

An individual using a credit card reader

“This market dominance allows them to set the swipe fees charged by their member banks with impunity,”Joen said, adding that the current system greatly benefits Visa and Mastercard. These companies have seen their collected swipe fees grow from $61.3 billion in 2020 to $93.2 billion in 2022, he added. 

Retailers must accept the fees in order to take credit cards as payment. 

However, if passed, this legislation would effectively break up the “duopoly” and require the nation’s largest credit card-issuing financial institutions to enable a second processing network to route transactions. 

Ticker Security Last Change Change %
MA MASTERCARD INC. 417.13 +2.82 +0.68%
V VISA INC. 244.66 +3.59 +1.49%

New competitors in the credit card market would force the two networks to compete for a retailer’s business by, in part, enhanced service and lower swipe fee rates, according to Joen.

Representatives for Visa and Mastercard have not immediately responded to FOX Business request for comment. 

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