{"id":198,"date":"2006-11-01T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T16:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merchantaccountblog.com\/archives\/198"},"modified":"2006-11-01T09:51:29","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T16:51:29","slug":"mastercard-finally-publishes-interchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/198\/mastercard-finally-publishes-interchange","title":{"rendered":"Mastercard Finally Publishes Interchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mastercard has finally published their interchange rates. Visa beat Mastercard to publishing interchange rates, even though Mastercard made the initial announcement a few months ago, about a month before Visa.<\/p>\n<p>An expected backlash against Visa for having such a complicated interchange schedule came almost immediately after the release. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mastercard.com\/us\/wce\/PDF\/14992_MasterCard_Interchange_Rates_and_Criteria_-_October_2006.pdf\">Mastercard&#8217;s rate schedule<\/a> is 72 pages long, making Visa&#8217;s 5 page report fairly mild in comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck to anyone trying to completely decipher this monster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Posts:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/archives\/191\">Visa publishes interchange fees<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/archives\/189\">Visa is going public<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/archives\/180\">Mastercard to publish interchange rates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mastercard has finally published their interchange rates. Visa beat Mastercard to publishing interchange rates, even though Mastercard made the initial announcement a few months ago, about a month before Visa. An expected backlash against Visa for having such a complicated interchange schedule came almost immediately after the release. Mastercard&#8217;s rate schedule is 72 pages long, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchantaccounts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}