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|| Impact of the Durbin Interchange Amendment on the Card Payments Industry: Who Gains? Who Loses? (*.pdf)

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law by President Obama on July 21, 2010. Section 1075 - aka the Durbin interchange amendment, will have an enormous impact on the card payments industry. Attached presentation discusses its direct and indirect effects on large and small debit and prepay card issuers, card-issuer processors, the retail card payment networks, and merchant acquirers and processors.

||For $300 million Steve Case and Ted Leonsis throw in the towel on Revolution Money


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|| Market Rather Than the State Should Determine Payment prices (*.pdf)

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's conference "Payments Pricing: Who Bears the Cost?"

Chicago, May 15, 2009

||Chris Dodd and Barney Frank Have the Credit-Card Industry In Their Cross Hairs, Eric Grover, March 25, 2009


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||The Role of Government Regulation in Alternative Payments - Distilled remarks Janney Montgomery Scott Electronic Payments Summit Philadelphia, November 18, 2008


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||Plucky Revolution Money takes on payments giants, Eric Grover, June 11, 2008


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||UBS Electronic Payments Summit V - Opening Remark, Eric Grover, June 4, 2008


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||Comments on the ongoing transformation of the European card payment processing landscape, Eric Grover, June, 2008


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||A regulatory tide is coming in on the credit-card industry, Eric Grover, May 27, 2008


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||Discover making headway to achieving US acceptance parity, Eric Grover, May 27, 2008


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||Eufiserv stake reinforces First Data's position as Europe's leading payment processor, Eric Grover, May 27, 2008


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||Western Union acts to co-opt mobile money transfers, Eric Grover, April 28, 2008


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||Discover's Diners Club acquisition a coup, Eric Grover, April 8, 2008


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||Comments on MasterCard, Eric Grover, April, 2007


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||European and US Payment Networks' Different Paths, Eric Grover, April 17, 2007


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