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Payment Processors

A credit card processor with a green arrow on the screen going down. Credit cards are nearby. | Illustration: Midjourney

Credit Card

Capping Credit Card Fees Threatens To Hurt Consumers and Small Businesses

Lawmakers can’t change the fact that expenses must be offset somewhere.

J.D. Tuccille | 6.24.2026 7:00 AM

Book cover of 'Transaction Denied: Big Finance's Power to Punish Speech' by Raney Reitman | Credit: Penguin Random House/Midjourne

Banking

Bankers Scouring Porn Sites. Payment Processors Punishing Journalists. Here's How 'Big Finance' Is Chilling Speech

Financial censorship should worry us all, suggests Rainey Reitman in Transaction Denied.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.29.2026 12:15 PM

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Guns

Banks Increasingly Back Political Scheme To Track Gun Purchases by Credit Card

Politicians lean on the financial industry to target activities they don’t like.

J.D. Tuccille | 3.6.2023 7:00 AM

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Economics

Getting Paid in Bitcoin

Unfortunately, an automatic crypto purchase made with after-tax earnings won't lower your taxable income.

Mike Riggs | 5.16.2022 6:00 AM

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Sex Work

Why OnlyFans Is Double-Crossing Sex Workers

Plus: FTC revives antitrust suit against Facebook, Planned Parenthood pushes back against Montana abortion laws, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.20.2021 9:42 AM

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Sex Work

Anti-Porn Groups Target Websites' Ability to Accept Credit Card Payments

We've seen this before...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.8.2020 2:45 PM

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