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RBA Glossary definition for credit card
credit card – A credit card is a card whose holder has been granted a revolving credit line. The card enables the holder to make purchases and/or cash advances up to a pre-arranged limit. The credit granted can be settled in full by the end of a specified period or in part, with the balance taken as extended credit. Interest may be charged on the transaction amounts from the date of each transaction or only on the extended credit where the credit granted has not been settled in full.
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Credit and Charge Cards
20 Sep 2005
PSB Annual Report
– 2005
cards. Imposing a charge allows them to accept credit cards, with the customer then free to choose whether the value they receive from using the card exceeds the cost of doing ... than twice that on debit cards, reflecting the larger average value of a
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/psb/2005/credit.html
Reform of Card Payment Systems
26 Sep 2006
PSB Annual Report
– 2006
This has encouraged some card issuers to focus more on attracting customers who use their credit cards to borrow, by offering them lower interest rates. ... Scheme debit, however, had a competitive advantage over EFTPOS because merchants were forced to
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/psb/2006/reform-card.html
Card Payment Systems
13 Sep 2007
PSB Annual Report
– 2007
They then fell to around 0.55 per cent when the credit card reforms were introduced. ... Competition authorities in a number of countries have also taken action against the credit card schemes.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/psb/2007/card-payments.html
Competition and Efficiency
21 Mar 2002
PSB Annual Report
– 2001
the international card schemes (MasterCard and Visa) have regulations that prevent merchants recovering from cardholders the cost of accepting credit cards; and. ... Recent data show that, from a merchant's perspective, credit card transactions cost
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/psb/2001/competition.html
Competition and Efficiency
11 Nov 2004
PSB Annual Report
– 2004
Under this standard, the designated credit card schemes of Visa and MasterCard are not permitted to prohibit merchants from passing on the cost of accepting credit cards to customers that use ... One motivation for these arrangements from the banks'
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/psb/2004/competition.html
Competition and Efficiency
24 Mar 2003
PSB Annual Report
– 2002
cards. Credit card users are effectively ‘subsidised’, in the sense that they are charged less than the cost of the credit card payment services they use (or are even offered rebates ... in reforming debit card interchange fees at the same time as
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/psb/2002/competition.html
Competition and Efficiency
1 Oct 2000
PSB Annual Report
– 2000
The study analysed interchange fee arrangements for ATM, credit cards and debit card payment networks separately. ... As far as the credit card network is concerned, the. Trade Practices Act 1974.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/psb/2000/competition.html
Competition and Efficiency
25 Sep 2003
PSB Annual Report
– 2003
Visa credit card schemes in Australia as payment systems subject to its regulation under the. ... APRA has also issued prudential guidance on risk management of credit card activities.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/psb/2003/competition.html
Other Retail Payments Developments
12 Sep 2014
PSB Annual Report
– 2014
The pricing of debit cards to consumers is less clear than credit cards because debit card services are generally bundled with a range of transaction and account services. ... While debit and credit cards remain a popular and widely accepted alternative
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/psb/2014/other-ret-pay-dev.html
Retail Payments Developments
9 Oct 2015
PSB Annual Report
– 2015
Within credit and charge cards, the combined market share of the three-party card schemes (American Express and Diners Club) was largely unchanged in 2014/15 at 19–20 per cent ... Fraud statistics for ‘scheme’ debit, credit and charge cards include
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/psb/2015/retail-payments-developments.html