New Jersey enacts law capping surcharges
Payments Dive
AUGUST 23, 2023
New Jersey’s governor signed a new law capping credit card surcharges, limiting the amount merchants can charge for processing a transaction.
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Payments Dive
AUGUST 23, 2023
New Jersey’s governor signed a new law capping credit card surcharges, limiting the amount merchants can charge for processing a transaction.
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Lawmakers passed a bill that limits the surcharge a merchant can impose on consumers to the cost of processing a credit card transaction.
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Nearly half of the nation’s employees are willing to accept nontraditional payment methods, such as mobile payments, digital platforms or pay cards, according to research by ADP, the New Jersey provider of human resources management software and services.
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In the tug-of-war over merchants refusing either cash or cards embroiling local governments in New Jersey, New York City and Philadelphia, the Iowa State Fair is taking the middle ground.
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Goldman Sachs is the lead investor in a $50 million funding round for credit card startup Deserve, CNBC reported on Monday (Nov. Deserve offers credit cards to nontraditional consumers and sells its cloud-based platform to companies wanting to launch their own branded cards.
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She was also the CEO of Amazon subsidiary Quidsi, based in her native New Jersey, The Seattle Times reported. At SoFi , based in Silicon Valley, Renz will lead the FinTech startup’s credit card, brokerage and bank account businesses, one of the sources told WSJ.
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San Francisco is considering following in the footsteps of New Jersey and Philadelphia and banning cashless stores, including Amazon Go, according to a report from CNBC. Many lawmakers say cashless stores are discriminatory toward lower-income individuals, as well as those without bank accounts or credit cards.
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“The extent of SMB churn is hard to quantify, and likely won’t be known for perhaps another six months, but we note that 75 percent of Square’s payment volume comes from merchants with less $500,000 in annual card volumes,” he said. Kupferberg wrote that stimulus checks could help some small businesses temporarily stay afloat. Square Inc.’s
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The new view of the Wire Act comes months after the Supreme Court in May 2018 struck down a 1992 law passed by Congress that made it illegal for most states to legalize sports betting within their borders. New Jersey was the ringleader of the effort, though it did enlist support from 17 other states and three additional state governors.
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For example, The College of New Jersey this week announced that while it’s “keeping tuition flat,” it will cut overall student costs by 3.5 The school is doing so by cutting fees for card service, student activities and use of the campus student center. Some institutions do plan to reduce the cost of attendance.
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New Jersey was the ringleader of the effort, though it did enlist support from 17 other states and three additional state governors. According to the latest data from the state’s gambling regulator, consumers in New Jersey have placed more than $780 million worth of online bets since that decision, and $1.25
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Similar worries extend to card-based payments, too, as the virus can remain active on plastic surfaces for up to three days. Regardless of such hurdles, recent developments have made contactless cards and mobile payment options particularly appealing and viable options for restaurants planning to reopen soon.
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As of this week, customers with SNAP in the states of Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin can now use their cards to buy groceries from the website’s services and have them delivered to the customers’ doors.
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Critics contend that cashless stores impact those that don’t have credit cards, bank accounts or like to pay via cash, The New York Times reported. In other cashless payment news, Philadelphia recently passed a ban on cashless stores – the first big U.S. city to do so, per reports.
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Kindred Group, which also supports gambling platforms in Europe and Australia, has been operating its Unibet brand in New Jersey and Pennsylvania for about a year. the vast majority of other payouts are handled by ACH or prepaid cards, which are relatively faster but do not support instant funds access. in the next year.
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for instance, nearly half of all Visa transactions at physical points of sale happen via contactless card tap. Asia Pacific lags behind the worldwide average somewhat, with one-third of all in-person transactions happening via contactless card. In May, New Jersey surpassed Nevada for the first time. Excluding the U.S.,
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They do have to be using uberPOOL, and it’s only available in select cities and New Jersey for now. But once the employer opts into the program through a participating benefit provider, the employee is able to add a commuter benefits debit card to their Uber account.
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The process itself is what has changed,” he declared, offering up the example of Apple Pay for the transaction, which brings the phone into play in the stead of cash or card. It may be that the consumer-facing interaction has been altered most visibly, said Galarza.“The
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