As part of the Durbin Amendment included in the 2010 Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, certain debit cards have
their interchange fees capped at 21 cents plus 0.05 % of the transaction value.
Not exact matches
The effect could be analogous to what happened when federal regulations
capped debit card
interchange fees.
The survey finds that the rise in
fees is, in part, a result of recent regulations limiting overdraft
fees and
capping the cost of debit card
interchange fees.
It probably won't be long before the Federal Reserve reaches a decision concerning a proposed
cap on
interchange fees.
For example, In places like Europe,
interchange fees are
capped at around.3 % for Visa and Mastercard and when those
interchange fees were
capped, Capital One dropped its UK cash back program in 2015.
But with a
cap put on these
interchange fees, banks aren't able to offer these lucrative rewards.
Consumers have been the winners, as rewards card offers have increased over the past year, due in part to competition for prime customers and to federal regulations that
capped debit card
interchange fees collected by banks from merchants.
In fact, when those
interchange fees were
capped, Capital One dropped its UK cash back program in April of 2015
This partially explains why lucrative rewards programs haven't caught on in places like Europe where
interchange fees are
capped at around.3 % for Visa and Mastercard.
In December 2015, the European Union put into effect a regulation
capping interchange fees at 0.3 percent on credit cards.