AGs call on nine oil companies asking them to eliminate the illegal products from convenience and fuel retail locations that operate under their brand names NACS Online The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) sent a letter this week to the CEOs of nine oil companies asking them to help eliminate any synthetic drug sales…
New nationwide campaign includes $100 reimbursement for upgrading to EMV terminals NACS Online American Express has officially launched its Small Merchant EMV Assistance Program. The nationwide campaign will help U.S. small merchants fight fraud through a $10 million reimbursement program designed to accelerate adoption of EMV payment terminals. It will also arm small merchants with…
Bipartisan bill would repeal ethanol blending requirement of RFSSenators Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) are working together to urge the repeal of a piece of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) that requires refiners to blend a certain amount of ethanol into the nation’s fuel supply. “The federal mandate for corn ethanol is both…
In a column for American Banker, NACS lobbyist explains how excessive swipe fees hurt the entire economy – not just retailers and consumers NACS Online In a column published in March for American Banker, NACS Senior Vice President of Government Relations Lyle Beckwith explained how price-fixing in the business of processing credit- and debit-card transactions…
By Dr. Roy Littlefield, III Recently, SSDA-AT participated in a Small Business Labor Safety Roundtable for OSHA/MSHA. In attendance was Patrick Kapust, Deputy Director of Enforcement Programs, Directorate of Enforcement, Occupational Safety and Health Administration to give an update on enforcement data and trends involving small businesses around the country. As you should know by now, a…
Experts question slower transaction time and supply chain issues for EMV cards NACS Online CPI card group, which produces credit cards for a majority of issuers, has been swamped with orders for new cards equipped with EMV chip technology and is struggling to keep up with demand. “We are working 24-7,” Docia Myer of CPI…
NACS Online FDA to eliminate the use of trans-fats by 2018, after determining they are not “generally recognized as safe” for use in human food The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), the primary dietary source of artificial trans-fat in processed foods, are not “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS)…
NACS-supported legislation restores long-standing interpretation of the Wire Act NACS Online Recently, U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Mike Lee (R-UT),Marco Rubio (R-FL), Dan Coats (R-IN), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) introduced their bipartisan legislation, S. 1668, Restoration of America’s Wire Act, which restores the long-standing interpretation of the Wire Act.…
The U. S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled to uphold tax credits for Americans purchasing health care coverage through federal exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act. The 6-3 decision, in King v. Burwell, affirmed that of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which found the ACA’s language ambiguous and gave the Obama administration…
Card company will stop practice of prohibiting merchants from promoting other cards, following legal ruling NACS Online Following a judge’s ruling earlier this year that the practice was anticompetitive, American Express announced that it will lift its long-standing restrictions that have prohibited merchants from steering customers to other card brands. The announcement resulted from a…