{"id":56012,"date":"2015-03-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2e4a023fd712083b73333ebe52f0d8d7"},"modified":"2015-03-27T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T10:00:00","slug":"news-story-cma-publishes-worldpay-interim-measures-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=56012","title":{"rendered":"News story: CMA publishes Worldpay interim measures decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Worldpay, a provider of payment services to merchants such as retailers, submitted an application in September 2014 for the Competition and Markets Authority (<abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>) to use its power to impose interim measures against Visa UK Limited. Worldpay requested that Visa be required to align the interchange fees that apply in the UK for domestic debit and credit card transactions with those that would apply to cross-border acquired transactions from 1 January 2015 further to commitments Visa made to the European Commission in February 2014.<\/p>\n<p>After careful consideration, the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> concluded that it was unlikely that there would be significant damage to either Worldpay or merchants in the absence of urgent intervention. The decision not to impose the requested measures was issued to Worldpay in December 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cma-cases\/investigation-into-interchange-fees-mastercard-visa-mifs\">decision summary<\/a> and all other information relating to the investigation are available on the case page.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> has been investigating the interchange fee arrangements for UK domestic point-of-sale transactions made using MasterCard\/Maestro and Visa consumer payment cards. In November 2014, the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> announced that it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/cma-decides-not-to-progress-interchange-fee-investigations-at-the-present-time\">decided not to progress its investigations<\/a> at that present time. This decision was reached in light of the European Commission\u2019s proposed interchange fees regulation, which is expected to cap MasterCard\u2019s and Visa\u2019s fees and ensure they are fair and transparent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMA has published a summary of its decision on an application for interim measures under section 35 of the Competition Act 1998 made by Worldpay in relation to the CMA\u2019s Visa interchange fees investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}