Sept. 11 (UPI) --Major credit card companies announced plans to categorize purchases at gun stores separately. Visa on Saturday announced on Saturday it would join Mastercard and American Express in ...

Visa, Mastercard and Discover announced they will pause a plan to implement a new merchant category code for the nation’s gun retailers after political pressure from Republicans. The measure that was ...

Visa Inc., MasterCard Inc., and Discover Inc., have paused their work on a plan to track when cardholders make purchases at gun stores. The payment processing companies said Thursday they have ...

Merchant category codes now exist for almost every kind of purchase, including those made at supermarkets, clothing stores, coffee shops, etc. Gun retailers were coded as general merchandise. Payment ...

March 9 (Reuters) - Mastercard Inc MA.N said on Thursday it would pause work on its implementation of a new payments code for gun merchants, citing the complexities raised by pending laws in a number ...