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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11023

21 February 2014
Contents Publication in full By article 14 / 36
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) banking
EP wants debit and credit card fees to be capped

Brussels, 20/02/2014 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee wants multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) paid by a trader's bank to the bank of a credit or debit card holder to be capped.

For credit card transactions, MEPs agreed with the European Commission's suggestion that the bank's fee be capped at 0.3% of the value of the transaction. MEPs backed the Commission's idea of capping debit card transactions, but the committee amended the proposed...

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