According to TransUnion, one the U.S.’s three largest credit reporting agencies, the average American held $6,523 in credit card debt at the end of September, up $143 from the same point last year and over $1,000 more than in the third quarter of 2022.

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Americans’ credit card balances are expected to increase by the smallest annual amount next year since 2013, excluding the first year of the pandemic, TransUnion said.

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Under the new proposal, Visa and Mastercard would lower swipe fees by an average of around 0.1 percentage point for several years and cap "standard" consumer card rates at 1.25% for eight years. But the proposal would also loosen rules that require merchants to accept all of a network's credit cards.

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