Main Street is getting squeezed from every direction. The restaurant owner in Little Rock, the boutique in Fayetteville, the ...

Is lawmaking the way forward on swipe fees?

I’ve spent most of my life working in restaurants. At 15, I worked tables at the restaurant my dad managed while my mom bartended. Even then, I knew I wanted to be a chef — though my dad wasn’t ...

Visa and Mastercard say they have reached a settlement to resolve a long-running battle over swipe fees. These are the fees that restaurants and retailers pay the card companies every time a customer ...

In a recent opinion piece for the Taunton Daily Gazette, the author made the claim that consumers in Massachusetts “don’t need to be concerned with credit card ‘swipe fees.’” However, this could not ...

An accord reached in a 20-year feud between credit card issuers and stores could change the way you rack up loyalty points every time you swipe your card at a sales terminal. The agreement, first ...