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Retailers Are Back, Begging for More

Electronic Payments Coalition March 15, 2016 No Comments

Retailers are once again making the rounds on Capitol Hill this week asking for another handout from Congress. Despite their annual $8 billion windfall—a direct result of the last-minute Durbin…

Merchants Ignore Durbin’s Toll on Their Customers

Electronic Payments Coalition February 24, 2016 No Comments

Retailers who claim that restrictions on debit card fees benefit credit unions and community banks miss the point: these price controls are bad for consumers. After Congress passed the Durbin…

Interchange Fee Warnings Coming True In EU

Electronic Payments Coalition February 4, 2016 No Comments

Capping interchange fees has been tried in some countries around the world. Despite claims that these efforts were for the benefit of consumers, the real world results have shown the…

Loyalty program critics protect you from yourself

Electronic Payments Coalition February 1, 2016 No Comments

At first blush, you might well wonder why anyone would be against loyalty programs. Whether you earn points by shopping at a particular store or by using a particular credit…

Retailers Don’t Need Another Regulatory Handout

Electronic Payments Coalition January 7, 2016 No Comments

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., slipped into the monstrous 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill a favor long sought by big-box retailers, such as Wal-Mart. The Durbin amendment, as it is known,…

Retailers Angle For Another Handout From Washington

Electronic Payments Coalition December 28, 2015 No Comments

Inside the Beltway, a battle has been raging for close to a decade pitting retailers against America’s credit card companies, better known as Visa V -0.38%, MasterCard MA +0.00% and American…

Retailers Demand Price Controls from Congress

Electronic Payments Coalition December 18, 2015 No Comments

Christmas is the time for goodies and gifts but lobbyists for the retail industry’s are hoping Congress grants their wish list of crony capitalist giveaways that will cost consumers while increasing…

Congress Should Not Buy This Bill of Goods on Credit Card Fees

Electronic Payments Coalition December 18, 2015 No Comments

Most in politics can understand it when those firmly on the progressive side make the argument that we in America need to enact public policy more like that of Europe.…

We won’t get fooled again by retailers’ empty promises By Molly Wilkinson

Electronic Payments Coalition December 16, 2015 No Comments

Last week The Hill ran a piece by Merchant Payments Coalition Chairman and National Retail Federation SVP Mallory Duncan, in which he asked Congress to adopt a European model of…

Congress should reject European price controls

Electronic Payments Coalition December 15, 2015 No Comments

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery—and a corollary to that adage is the idea that if you want to be successful, you look at someone who…

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Retailers Are Back, Begging for More

Merchants Ignore Durbin’s Toll on Their Customers

Interchange Fee Warnings Coming True In EU

Loyalty program critics protect you from yourself

Retailers Don’t Need Another Regulatory Handout

Retailers Angle For Another Handout From Washington

Retailers Demand Price Controls from Congress

Congress Should Not Buy This Bill of Goods on Credit Card Fees

We won’t get fooled again by retailers’ empty promises By Molly Wilkinson

Congress should reject European price controls

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