Visa and Mastercard are offering to lower the fees they charge merchants to accept their credit cards to settle 20 years of litigation, but some merchant groups say it's all "smoke and mirrors" and ...

Many small businesses are breathing a bit easier as inflation has cooled and the race for workers slows. But consumers’ steady embrace of credit cards is taking a growing bite out of their margins.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin has reintroduced the Credit Card Competition Act. The act looks to create a more competitive climate for credit card networks, and cut down on the supermajority companies Visa ...