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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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Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Matters Relating to Credit Card Interest Rates-Credit cards as sources of credit
8 May 2024
Submissions
The decreased share of credit card debt may partly reflect the high cost of credit cards relative to mortgage interest rates and the increasing ability of households to use mortgage offset ... The Bank publishes data on average advertised credit card
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/submissions/financial-sector/inquiry-matters-relating-to-credit-card-interest-rates-2015-08/credit-cards-source-of-credit.html
Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Matters Relating to Credit Card Interest Rates-Credit Cards as Payment Instruments
8 May 2024
Submissions
The Bank's 2013 Consumer Use Survey shows that higher-income households use credit cards much more frequently for transactions compared with debit cards; conversely, debit card use is more common ... In the early 2000s, the Reserve Bank became concerned
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/submissions/financial-sector/inquiry-matters-relating-to-credit-card-interest-rates-2015-08/credit-cards-as-payment-instruments.html
Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Matters Relating to Credit Card Interest Rates-The Credit Card Market
8 May 2024
Submissions
Interchange revenues from transactions on MasterCard and Visa credit cards (and issuer fees from American Express ‘companion’ card transactions): based on incomplete data, the Bank estimates these at around $1–1 ... While almost all Australian
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/submissions/financial-sector/inquiry-matters-relating-to-credit-card-interest-rates-2015-08/the-credit-card-market.html
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
Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Matters Relating to Credit Card Interest Rates-Introduction
8 May 2024
Submissions
The major points include:. There are a wide range of card products and issuers in the Australian credit card market, and while ‘standard’ interest rates on credit cards tend to be ... cards still provide an incentive for credit card use for many
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/submissions/financial-sector/inquiry-matters-relating-to-credit-card-interest-rates-2015-08/introduction.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