Use a Pen, Not Your PIN?
Kristin Davis writes for Kiplinger Magazine about the "dual personality" of debit cards - how they can be used either as signature-based or PIN-based. "Signature-based purchases are far more profitable for banks, which get a slice of the 1.5%-to-1.9% interchange fee that merchants pay to process transactions over the Visa and MasterCard networks."






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