Competitive Credit Card Brand definition

Competitive Credit Card Brand includes any brand of Credit Card or electronic credit payment form of a nationally accepted payment network other than MasterCard, specifically including without limitation Visa, American Express, Discover, and PayPal.  “Competitive Credit Card Brand Cost of Acceptance” is the merchant’s average Merchant Discount Rate applicable to transactions on a Competitive Credit Card Brand at the merchant for the preceding one or twelve months, at the merchant’s option.  “Independent Consideration” means material value a merchant receives specifically in exchange for the merchant’s agreement to waive or otherwise restrict its right to surcharge transactions on a Competitive Credit Card Brand, including, e.g., a material reduction in the Competitive Credit Card Brand’s standard acceptance cost applicable to the merchant (i.e., the cost at which transactions on Competitive Credit Card Brand’s cards are surcharged absent such an agreement).  The “Maximum Surcharge Cap” shall be no less than the product of 1.8 times the sum of the system-wide average effective U.S. domestic MasterCard Credit Card interchange rate plus average network fees (defined to include network set fees to acquirers or merchants associated with the processing of a transaction or with the acceptance of the network’s brand) as of the Preliminary Approval Date or as subsequently adjusted in accordance with this bullet. To facilitate the determination of the Maximum Surcharge Cap, within 10 business days of the Settlement Preliminary Approval Date, the MasterCard Defendants shall provide Class Counsel with the system-wide average effective U.S. domestic MasterCard Credit Card interchange rate plus average network fees (calculated based upon the preceding 12 month period) and will publish that amount on MasterCard’s website in a manner that is readily visible to merchants. The MasterCard Defendants agree shall adjust the Maximum Surcharge Cap in accordance with this bullet at least annually, and may adjust the Maximum Surcharge Cap in accordance with this bullet no more than two times per year.

Examples of Competitive Credit Card Brand in a sentence

• As used in this Paragraph 42(a): • “After accounting for any discounts or rebates offered by the merchant at the point of sale” means that the amount of the surcharge for a Visa Credit Card or a Competitive Credit Card Brand is to include the amount of any discount or rebate that is applied to that card or brand at the point of sale but which is not equally applied to all Visa Credit Card Transactions.

• As used in this Paragraph 55(a): • “After accounting for any discounts or rebates offered by the merchant at the point of sale” means that the amount of the surcharge for a MasterCard Credit Card or a Competitive Credit Card Brand is to include the amount of any discount or rebate that is applied to that card or brand at the point of sale but which is not equally applied to all MasterCard Credit Card Transactions.