Once a credit card swipe crosses the $5,000 mark, the transaction stops being routine and starts triggering a series of behind-the-scenes checks, score calculations, and banking rules that most people ...

Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year, and most of us approach it with a plan. We hunt for deals, compare prices and try to stretch our dollars a little further. What few people think ...

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Many small businesses are breathing a bit easier as inflation has cooled and the race for workers slows. But consumers’ steady embrace of credit cards is taking a growing bite out of their margins.

Visa and Mastercard are offering to lower the fees they charge merchants to accept their credit cards to settle 20 years of litigation, but some merchant groups say it's all "smoke and mirrors" and ...

Terms apply to American Express benefits and offers. Visit americanexpress.com to learn more. Many businesses have started adding surcharges when a customer pays with a credit card. But is the ...

The risk of credit card fraud doesn’t end when or where you swipe your card. Any business that stores your credit card number could experience a data breach in which a hacker attains access to your ...