Примери коришћења Interchange fees на Енглеском и њихови преводи на Српски
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The bulk of merchant fees(approx. 60-70%)relates to interchange fees.
The interchange fees in the Republic of Serbia are currently several times higher than in the EU markets.
Therefore, they are incited to promote a brand yielding the most revenues from the interchange fees.
Interchange fees are set so to take into account the network system effects and enhance the overall system effects.
Owing to DinaCard,charging the lowest interchange fees, total costs of card transactions in the market have been reduced.
Interchange fees do not represent the selling price for services offered by Mastercard, and Mastercard does not yields revenues from interchange fees.
Mastercard clients in the Republic of Serbia have not entered into bilateral agreements on the amount of interchange fees but apply Mastercard rules.
The interchange fees for card-based payment transactions are regulated by the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council no.
According to the statements presented by the branch, VISA interchange fees are set as"the value transfer between financial institutions" and not as the merchant service charge.
The possibilities of enacting decisions by banks are removed, with no mutual interest between Mastercard(and its shareholders) andbanks to keep interchange fees high.
An appropriate level of interchange fees favors card issuing, while also enables the acquirers/merchants to pay a fair price for services that benefit them.
The Commission establishes that Mastercard has not substantiated andobjectively justified the amount and structure of the interchange fees applied, but only justified the necessity of such fees. .
The higher interchange fees also mean increased revenues for the Mastercard network owner since the success of Mastercard in selling access to the network to banks also depends on the number of banks participating in the system.
As further evidence, VISA organization"endeavors to evaluate interchange fees at the level that is optimal for the interests of both sides, issuing and acquiring banks.".
All membership- user rights and licenses under the VISA Core Rules and VISA Product and Service Rules2, granted to a member bank when entering into the agreement indicate that VISA rules are applicable and mandatory for all VISA payment system parties,as well as that VISA is setting the interchange fees with the right to right to rectify the improper allocations.
The Mastercard experience shows that interchange fees represent the best manner for distribution of costs of the payment card operations and related services, between the payment card system users, merchants and card-holders.
Based on the above,merchants will have an insight into main components of merchant service charges- costs of interchange fees, payment card scheme fees and bank margin and will be able to learn which cards generate higher costs.
When deciding andsetting the amount of interchange fees, VISA organization takes into account the interests of member banks of its payment system, adjusting and tailoring them against their business interests, and in that manner creating a community of interests with its members.
In line with the statements presented above, the party believes that Mastercard has caused the infringement of competition between acquiring banks by enacting a decision on the interchange fees, which represents a form of restrictive agreement within the meaning of Article 10 of the Law.
In the absence of specific bilateral agreements between banks on interchange fees, VISA payment organization obligates all member banks included in the VISA payment card system to apply MIFs in a set amount by default as fallback to each POS payment card transaction.
The interchange fees are regulated in the European Union in EU Regulation 2015/751 on interchange fees for card-based payment transactions5, limiting the interchange fees at no more than 0.2% of the annual average transaction value of all domestic debit card transactions within each payment card scheme, and at no more than 0.3% of the value of the transaction for any credit card transaction.
Of January 30, 2017",under section"Mandatory" are provided the national interchange fees for POS payment card transactions in the Republic of Serbia, in force from the day of implementation of the Law on Interchange Fees.
With the current average of 1%,the Law limits interchange fees to the EU level, that is, to 0.2% for debit card transactions and 0.3% for credit card transactions with a six-month transition period, from 17 December 2018 until 17 June 2019 when interchange fees will be limited to maximum 0.5% for debit and 0.6% for credit cards.
Based on the statements presented in the initiative,the infringement of competition can be seen in the fact that Mastercard sets the fallback multilateral interchange fees(hereinafter, the interchange fee) unjustifiably high and, in the absence of bilateral agreements, obligates all Mastercard member banks to apply interchange fees in the set amount by default as fallback to each POS payment card transaction.
Denying the interest in setting the interchange fees, it is stated that VISA payment organization has no interest in having"too high" or"too low" fees, but strives to set the rates at which related fees are calculated at a level that is optimal for the interests of both sides, issuing and acquiring banks.
Finally, Mastercard representative office has underlined that if the Commission believes otherwise,then the Mastercard interchange fees, related rules and practice could qualify for the individual exemption form prohibition within the meaning of Article 11 and 12 of the Law, arguing on the cumulative fulfilment of four requirements laid down in Article 11 of the Law for the exemption of restrictive agreement from prohibition.
Based on the analysis of the submitted Global Procedures of Interchange Fees, the Commission established that the chief regional officer also partakes in the decision on the modification of interchange fees in a country, pursuant to the VISA Core Rules and VISA Product and Service Rules, and that the Republic of Serbia is part of the CEMEA region1, thus is concluded that VISA CEMEA also participates in setting the interchange fees. .
In the rationale to its views, Mastercard representative office indicates that interchange fees stipulate a revenue transfer between issuing and acquiring banks to help optimize the utility of the network by issuers and acquirers, merchants and card-holders since higher interchange fees stimulate the demand of card-holders, while lower interchange fees stimulate the demand of merchants.
The absence of an interchange fee would represent a direct loss for users, who would then be individually charged for costs equivalent to said category of fees. .
The Commission establishes that VISA organization has submitted data on the amount of fees, without providing an explanation to the structure of the interchange fee, as ordered.