I wrote about this before, but it got buried in that much longer post with a boring title (very worthwhile read if your business accept credit cards). If you read this blog regularly you know that there are two parts of the credit card processing fees paid by businesses: interchange (goes to the card issuers) and the processor markup (goes to the processor).
Big and small businesses pay roughly the same interchange rates. However, according to the Philadelphia Federal Reserve, big businesses (red areas in the chart) pay a very small processor markup (0.04%) while small businesses (blue and yellow areas in the chart) pay a very large processor markup (1.29%).
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One Comment
January 26th, 2009 Steve Davis says:
Wow, that’s an astounding graphic! I guess it makes sense, though, since the largest players are big enough to *create* the network effect – if fees were higher they’d have an incentive (and the clout) to sponsor a new credit card processing solution; the small players, though, need to be part of the network, but have no power to go outside it.