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Decoding the Secrets of BIN Tables

In the ever-changing world of payments, efficiency, accuracy, optimization and security are paramount. As businesses strive to enhance their payment processes, leveraging strategies, technologies, and tools that optimize their payments landscape becomes crucial. One...
New Payment Brand Updates

New Payment Brand Updates

The Payment Brand updates notification distributed recently by your acquirer has several very important updates that will require your immediate attention. The notice consists largely of interchange and fee structure changes, several new interchange and fee increases...

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Premium and Super Premium Cards – The Silent Killers

Premium and Super Premium Cards – The Silent Killers

Over the years, we have seen many increases in interchange fees. Every 6-12 months, Visa/MC will pinpoint specific interchange rates that they choose to go up or down (mostly up). These increases usually apply to only a few categories each release, and they are fairly straightforward to forecast the cost impacts. For example, in October 2017, Visa increased Commercial Card Not Present Purchasing and Corporate cards from 2.65% to 2.70%. For most merchants, this was not a major increase (only 5 basis-points) as it only applied to these specific card types and only on CNP sales missing Level 2 data. To quantify financial impact, all a merchant would need to do is look up their historical volumes for these rates, and multiply by the 0.05% increase. Pretty simple…

But behind the scenes, a much larger impact to merchant costs have been occurring and you may not have even noticed it.

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