Visa-MasterCard settlement follows long-running legal battle and gives merchants more flexibility on card acceptance.

Charging purchases to a credit card is the way U.S. consumers most commonly pay online. But there are several reasons you might not want to use a card when you buy something on the internet. Maybe you ...

Both companies were sued by merchants over how they set and enforce credit-card swipe fees and rules that limit how merchants ...

If a business wants to offset processing fees, you could have to pay a surcharge for using a credit card. However, if you want to avoid this fee, pay with your debit card, cash or check. If the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... More than a third of all transactions in the U.S. ran through credit cards last year, driven by 827 million active accounts and a financial system built on ...