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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Nearly a decade after promulgation of Regulation II — better known as the Durbin Amendment — the Federal Reserve Board proposed changes to modernize the regulation by clarifying that the exclusivity prohibition applies to card-not-present transactions, such as online purchases. On March 7, the Federal Reserve Board issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) requiring debit card issuers to provide at least two unaffiliated networks to process card-not-present debit card transactions. As drafted, the NPR would amend Regulation I...

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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Fed’s final rule implementing the Durbin Amendment (Regulation II) went into effect in October 2011.  Nearly ten years later, the final rule is still provoking controversy in the form of a new lawsuit and proposed amendments to the rule and its official commentary. The Durbin Amendment (Section 1075 of Dodd-Frank) authorized the Fed to issue regulations to ensure that the amount of any interchange fee received by a large debit card issuer (one with at least $10 billion of assets, together with its affiliates) is reasonable an...

Furniture World News By Nic Ledoux on 5/10/2021 The National Retail Federation welcomed the recent announcement by the Federal Reserve that it plans to clarify that banks must allow retailers to decide where to route online debit card transactions for processing the same as they do with in-store debit transactions. “When Congress said routing was up to merchants, that meant wherever the purchase was made, not just in stores,” NRF Vice President for Government Relations, Banking and Financial Services Leon Buck said. “With the accel...

May 10, 2021 Pressure may be building on the Federal Reserve to take action on a debit card interchange-fee regulation that it has left intact for 10 years despite sweeping changes in the payments business, including an onrush of e-commerce transactions over the past year. In part, observers are reacting to a report the Fed released Friday indicating that issuers’ authorization, clearing, and settlement (ACS) costs for debit have declined dramatically over the years. In 2019, those costs came to 3.9 cents per transaction, roughly half the costs in 2009, according to the report. At the same...