The fees American Express charges merchants may often be steep and sometimes scary, but they are not anticompetitive.
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AmEx Is Free To Terrorize Shopkeepers
Tag Archives: Credit Card Companies
A Regulatory Crackdown That Worked
Amid a host of overreactions to the financial crisis, the CARD Act put an end to some genuinely abusive behavior by banks.
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Ding-Dong! Your Credit Card Company Comes Calling
Is that a real Viking peering through your window? No, it’s just Capital One exercising its contractual rights.
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What Playing Gotcha Can Getcha
Banks, credit card companies and other financial services firms made an art of snaring customers in loopholes and walloping them …
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Cancellation Compensation Is Complicated
With events of all sorts being canceled or postponed, getting tickets refunded can be easy – or not.
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