The Games are drawing all types of attention to the Italian nation, including an unanswered request to the world's leading credit card association about why the merchant interchange fee in Italy is nearly half the rate in the United States?
[Source: WayTooHigh.com]
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Interchange Fee Disparity Causes Visa to Sweat at the Olympics (WayTooHigh.com)
The XX Olympic Games in Torino, Italy is literally heating up. The warm, sixty-degree weather is melting the otherwise festive tone to the Games. But, Visa International, which is a global Olympic partner must also be feeling a different type of heat from angry merchants throughout the United States. One Visa U.S.A. Olympic TV spot asks, "What are you waiting for?" We ask them the very same question.
