The Card Game: How Visa, Using Card Fees, Dominates a Market

Courtesy NYT > Your Money  Mon, 01/04/2010 - 21:49

When you sign for a debit card at a big retailer, the store pays your bank more than twice as much as when you enter a PIN — a strategy hatched decades ago by Visa.


 

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