MPC Hill Blast: ‘This Summer’s Biggest Points Swindle’
The Elliot Report has awarded the biggest swindle of the season — and it’s travel sites pretending to care about your interests while actually taking money from banks to lobby for them.
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Progressive Grocer: Swipe Fee Reform Bill Gains Bipartisan Senate Support
“Each of these senators deserves credit for standing up to Wall Street megabanks and global card networks,” said Doug Kantor, MPC Executive Committee member and National Association of Convenience Stores general counsel. “Swipe fees have been driving up the price of just about everything for far too long and we appreciate these senators striking a blow to stop it.”
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CardRates.com: Interchange Fight Grows as Three Senators Back Credit Card Bill
Doug Kantor, Executive Committee Member of the Merchants Payments Coalition and General Counsel for the National Association of Convenience Stores, thanked the three senators in a press release supporting the bill. “Each of these senators deserves credit for standing up to Wall Street megabanks and global card networks,” Kantor added. “Main Street businesses and their everyday customers will benefit. Swipe fees have been driving up the price of just about everything for far too long and we appreciate these senators striking a blow to stop it.”
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NACS Daily: Cash or Credit: Two NACS Priorities Make Progress
“Thank you to Senators Moreno, Lummis and King,” said NACS General Counsel (and MPC Executive Committee member) Doug Kantor. “Each of these senators deserves credit for standing up to Wall Street megabanks and global card networks. Main Street businesses and their everyday customers will benefit. Swipe fees have been driving up the price of just about everything for far too long and we appreciate these senators striking a blow to stop it.”
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HBS Dealer: NLBMDA Joins Coalition Objection to Proposed Visa-Mastercard Settlement
NLBMDA has joined the Merchants Payments Coalition and other merchant organizations in objecting to the proposed settlement in the longstanding In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation.
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PYMNTS: Credit Card Competition Act Gains New Senate Support
“Each of these senators deserves credit for standing up to Wall Street megabanks and global card networks,” Merchants Payments Coalition executive committee member and National Association of Convenience Stores general counsel Doug Kantor said in a news release. “Main Street businesses and their everyday customers will benefit. Swipe fees have been driving up the price of just about everything for far too long and we appreciate these senators striking a blow to stop it.”
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Woodall's Campground Magazine: OHI Urges Park Owners to Oppose a Credit Card Settlement
Credit card swipe fees have increased 80% since the pandemic, reaching a record $198 billion last year alone. As campground owners and operators, you feel this pain every day, which is why OHI, along with our partners in our other industries in the collective Merchants Payments Coalition, has been fighting hard for the Credit Card Competition Act in DC.
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Scranton (Pa.) Times: Hold the card: Eateries embrace cash-only policy
Credit card and debit card swipe fees hit a record $198.25 billion in 2025 and are most merchants’ highest operating cost after labor, driving up prices by more than $1,200 a year for the average family, according to the Merchants Payments Coalition.
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Merchants Welcome New Senate Cosponsors of Credit Card Competition Act
MPC welcomed the addition of three new Senate sponsors of the Credit Card Competition Act.
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Credit Union Daily: Trump Again Expresses Support for Credit Card Competition Act as He Endorses Senator
“This is the second time President Trump has called for credit card swipe fee reform, and his continuing commitment shows that concern over these fees has reached the highest level,” Doug Kantor, a member of the Merchant Payments Coalition executive committee, said in a statement. “With President Trump and members of Congress from across the political spectrum seeking passage, it’s time to turn this legislation into law.”
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