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Visa and Mastercard face a new merchant-fee bill with bipartisan sponsors

The interchange fight is back in a form that can survive a committee. That is the news.

Priya NairFinance Reporter
Card payment at a retail counter

Card payment at a retail counter

WASHINGTON — The interchange fight is back in a form that can survive a committee. That is the news.

Retail coalitions have attached routing and fee-cap language that looks more like the last durable draft than a press-release bill, which is why the networks' lobbying spend is already showing up in the weekly tallies.

Priya Nair

Finance Reporter

Writes on banks, private credit, and the regulatory perimeter around nonbank lenders.