class-action lawsuit

I wrote recently about the proposed settlement to the anti-trust class-action lawsuit against Visa and MasterCard that has received the courts’ tentative approval (“Credit card surcharges: the good, the bad and the ugly…”). The proposed settlement has received a lot of media attention due to the size – over $6 billion – and the fact […]

As of Sunday, January 27, 2013, merchants can for the first time elect to pass along the cost of processing a credit card transaction to the cardholder in the form a surcharge on the purchase price. This is a result of a recent class-action lawsuit settlement involving the major card brands (Visa and MasterCard). If […]