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      <title>What Interchange Fees Actually Are — and Who Ends Up Paying Them</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Interchange is the fee a merchant's bank pays the cardholder's bank on every card sale, set by network schedules and capped only for large-bank debit. Here is how the money moves.]]></description>
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      <title>How Regulation II Caps Debit Interchange Fees at 21 Cents</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve's Regulation II limits what banks with $10 billion or more in assets can charge merchants per debit swipe, and the gap between covered and exempt issuers now runs to 28 cents a transaction.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:47:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How Dunning Keeps Subscriptions Alive When Cards Fail</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[How dunning keeps subscriptions alive when cards fail: retry timing, card account updater services, and involuntary churn benchmarks from named studies.]]></description>
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      <title>Zelle Moved $1.2 Trillion in 2025, Growing 20 Percent Year Over Year</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How virtual cards change B2B payment controls: single-use PANs, ghost cards, subscription controls, AP rebates, and a $14.6 trillion 2029 forecast.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Where the FX Markup Hides in Cross-Border Payments</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What Payment Orchestration Layers Actually Do for Merchants</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why gas stations preauthorize $75 to $175 on cards, how Visa and Mastercard hold rules changed in 2022, when holds release, and how paying inside helps.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How ACH Transfers Move Money Between Banks and Why Settlement Waits</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[How ACH transfers work: Nacha batch windows, the Same Day ACH limit since April 2024, and why standard ACH settlement takes one to two business days.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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