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Over the past few months, a wave of new lawsuits has been filed in California state court against online retailers alleging violations of California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act, Cal. Civ. Code § 1747.08 (“Song-Beverly”)....more
In the latest iteration of privacy claims, California plaintiffs have begun filing lawsuits against online retailers using online tracking technologies to collect IP addresses under a new theory—plaintiffs allege such...more
Recently, a large retailer (plaintiff) and a bank (defendant) agreed to settle a credit contract dispute. In April 2023, the retailer filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York against...more
Buy Now, Pay Later (“BNPL”) payments are often presented by retailers and BNPL lenders to consumers as an alternative to traditional credit card payments. After close scrutiny of industry practices for several years, the...more
In this episode of Payments Pros, Keith Barnett is joined by James Stevens to discuss the Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank Charter (MALPB) in Georgia, a unique charter that allows companies to offer merchant payment...more
On December 13, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law Assembly Bill 2672, which has significant implications for merchants in that it imposes disclosure requirements with respect to credit card surcharges for...more
A group of 24 AGs led by Montana AG Austin Knudsen and Tennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti sent a letter to the CEOs of three major credit card companies, American Express, MasterCard, and Visa, expressing their concerns about a...more
On March 31, 2022, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council released version 4.0 of its Data Security Standard (PCI DSS 4.0). The new version—which brings major changes to the payments ecosystem—places an...more
In the age of information, data is king. Keeping that point in mind, cannabis companies are flocking to build defensible market positions through cannabis loyalty programs. Cannabis loyalty programs are becoming more popular...more
Online retailers storing credit card data for the sole purpose of facilitating further purchases will likely need to obtain consumer consent. Online shopping has boomed in recent years. In 2020, the European statistics...more
On February 25, 2021, the United States District Court for the District of Kansas issued an opinion granting summary judgment in favor of CardX, LLC (CardX), and found unconstitutional “a Kansas law that prohibits sellers...more
New York City has amended its Administrative Code to make it unlawful for food stores and other retail establishments to refuse to accept payments in cash. Food stores are defined as “an establishment which gives or offers...more
Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft are warning that California’s new moves forcing them to classify their drivers as employees could force them both to shutter their operations altogether in that state (at least while they...more
On June 17, 2020, the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the appeals on the lawfulness of multilateral interchange fees, or swipe fees, (MIFs) in Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd (Respondent) v. Visa Europe Services LLC...more
COVID-19’s effect on the economy does not discriminate. Business activity has slowed down significantly for many companies, and even more drastically in certain sectors. Some of the industries that have been hit the hardest...more
Are assessments from the credit card networks damages that a merchant should be liable for under its merchant agreement? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a multimillion-dollar judgment in favor of the...more
On January 16, 2019, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the New York Attorney General (NY AG) announced an US$11 million settlement with a large retail jeweler (Retailer) to resolve alleged violations of the...more
On January 16, 2019, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the New York Attorney General announced a settlement with a retailer for alleged violations of the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 (CFPA) and...more
The CFPB and New York Attorney General have agreed to a settlement with Sterling Jewelers Inc. of a lawsuit they filed jointly in a New York federal district court alleging federal and state law violations in connection with...more
Marriott International Inc. (Marriott) has released new numbers relating to its Starwood Hotel’s reservation database by stating that more than 5 million passport numbers were stolen in the database. ...more
Neiman Marcus Group LLC has settled an investigation of its 2013 data breach with 43 states and the District of Columbia for $1.5 million. The data breach involved 370,000 credit cards, where 9,200 of the cards were used in a...more
The NY Attorney General and the plaintiffs in Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman have filed a joint motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit asking the court to vacate the district court’s final...more
As we reported on in 2013, 2015, and 2016, there has been much legal confusion as to how New York merchants can pass on the credit-card “swipe fees” to their customers. In the case of Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman,...more
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For most retailers their primary source of revenue comes from credit card transactions. In order to accept credit cards, a retailer must enter into a contractual agreement with a payment processor and a merchant bank....more