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To surcharge or not to surcharge. That is the question

March 14, 2013

In a proposed settlement between the Department of Justice, seventeen states and Visa and MasterCard, that was approved by a federal judge in July of 2011, regarding the interchange structure that Visa and MasterCard charge, the card associations are now removing the rule that prohibited merchants from charging a fee to accept a credit card [...]

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Working for the community

March 8, 2013

As some of you may have seen over time on our Facebook page, we are firm believers in giving back to the community – from holding a seat on the board of the Teaneck Chamber of Commerce, where our CEO, Jennifer Glass is Vice President to Fair Trade Teaneck, where again, our CEO is on [...]

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Global Payments tech problems

February 22, 2013

Global Payments East host system experienced an outage last night between 7:28pm and 9:47pm EST. Global confirmed the issue was resolved (as of 9:47 EST last night) and is currently processing transactions normally. This outage caused some of our merchant’s terminals to not batch out last night as intended. As a result, we are experiencing [...]

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