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Visa, Mastercard fee hikes add more inflation risk to RBA card reforms

Senior Business Correspondent
6 Oct, 2026
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Michael Sainsbury
Senior Business Correspondent
6 Oct, 2026
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Organisations across the economy are rejecting credit cards, adding new fees and prices are rising at retailers and bowsers as business groups decry the federal government and its full-throated support of the RBA's surcharge ban.
Visa, Mastercard fee hikes add more inflation risk to RBA card reforms
AACS CEO Theo Foukkare and ARCA CEO Wes Lambert. Background generated by AI.

Organisations across the economy are rejecting credit cards, adding new fees and prices are rising at retailers and bowsers as business groups decry the federal government and its full-throated support of the RBA's surcharge ban.

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