During a panel discussion about distributed business at SuperNova 2005, Philip Evans of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and author of "Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms ...
Credit card processing fees hit a record $198.25B in 2025. See 2026 interchange rates by network, card type, and pricing ...
The weighted average cost of payment acceptance is expected to have doubled from around 0.8% in 2009 to over 1.6% by 2025.[i] Fueled by the abundance of rewards cards, the shift to online payments, ...
Last week my friend and co-author Mike Munger published our conversation on his podcast, The Answer is Transaction Costs: Smart Grids, DERs, and the Economics of Energy. He and I are both deeply ...
In the world of payments, it’s easy to focus on the visible costs—processing fees, transaction expenses, vendor rates. But often, the real cost hides in plain sight. It shows up when a payment fails, ...
The topics of how to properly classify M&A transaction costs and under which circumstances these expenditures are considered tax deductible have been a source of great debate. Transaction costs can ...
What if every click you made online cost just a fraction of a penny? What if your favorite news site, your go-to streaming service, or even your daily email usage could be paid for at tiny increments, ...
The total cost of owning an exchange-traded fund can be roughly split into two parts: holding costs and transaction costs. Holding costs come with owning an ETF. Trading costs are paid as investors ...
Every purchase and sale of a business, whether from the perspective of the seller or the buyer, is about economics, and few items will impact the economics of the transaction more certainly or ...
On June 10, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service released a Chief Counsel Memorandum dated July 8, 2015, addressing the issue of whether a target S-corporation, which participated in a transaction in ...
A look at the realities of UX friction that widespread micropayments would create, and the potential solutions to that problem. What if every click you made online cost just a fraction of a penny?