Regulator to Formally Review the UK Card Acquiring Market
Last month the Payment Systems Regulator launched a review of the UK card acquiring market in order to assess whether it’s working well for merchants.
Increase in Non-Secure Fees in 2018
With non-secure transaction fees creeping up, I conducted a small investigation to discover which acquirers represent the best value for merchants.
Card Readers: The Battle Nears an End
We haven’t written about the wider card reader market (or mobile point of sale market) for a couple of years. The market has been a little static and there’s been too much going on elsewhere with EU interchange reductions, corporate … Continued
What is the cheapest way to buy merchant services?
In this article, I’m going to look at five popular sales channels for merchant services. I’ll touch on how competitive their pricing is and quickly explain whether or not I’d recommend you use it.
Best PayPal Alternatives for Growing Businesses
In this article, we’ll look at some of the alternatives to PayPal, which do exactly the same thing but at a much cheaper price.
Card scheme fees increase in January 2017
Another January and yet another card processing fee increase from the acquirers. Why this time? Simply put, because their card scheme fees are going up.
Warning: More Visa Debit Fee Changes 2016
Visa has reduced interchange on UK consumer debit cards by 1p and will remove the additional non-secure fee of 10p per transaction on some transactions.
Warning: UK Card Processing Fees Change 2016
Card processing fees certainly had their ups and downs in 2015 and we had expected 2016 to be relatively quiet. Not so.
WorldPay fails to pass on full EU interchange reductions
Christmas should be season of goodwill to all, so why are merchant acquirers acting like Scrooge at Christmas? WorldPay has become the latest merchant acquirer to fail to pass on the full 0.5% EU reduction in consumer credit card interchange to its customers.
Card Interchange Rates slashed on 9 December
So 9 December has come and gone and the EU interchange caps have taken effect but most SME merchants are left wondering what does this mean for me and why am I not seeing a material reduction in my card processing costs?
