Bank Group Wary of U.S. Retailer Credit Card Suit

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12 September 2006 at 10:20 a.m. ET

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By Joseph A. Giannone, Reuters

A looming class-action suit from U.S. retailers accusing credit card associations Visa and MasterCard and several big banks of price-fixing could cost the credit card industry more than $100 billion in damages and hit banks beyond American shores, a group of international bankers warned Monday.

Last June the first of some 47 lawsuits were filed by U.S. retailers and trade groups, accusing credit card associations and issuing banks of colluding to set artificially high interchange fees, the fees the merchants pay to credit card banks. It was the latest in a series of legal attacks on Visa and MasterCard by merchants who object to rising fees.

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