Its generally affluent cardholders charge big - dollar transactions,
generating swipe fees that merchants pay.
Not exact matches
In the case of American Express, their business model is based around
generating income from
swipe fees, not interest.
Banks are also hoping you'll use your co-branded airline card as much as possible to
generate merchant
fees, which earn the bank money with each
swipe you make.
Banks must love the
swipe fees they
generate because a lot of the best offers we've seen lately have been for business cards.