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Justice Department Probes Visa’s Relationships With Fintech Firms
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Investigators want to know if those deals kept the payments firms from using other card networks or money-movement technologies, the people said.</p>\n<p>The probe is part of an existing antitrust investigation that The Wall Street Journal previously reported. There is no indication that the department has reached any conclusions or is nearing the end of its probe.</p>\n<p>Visa is by far the biggest card network in the U.S., and for decades it has provided rails that debit- and credit-card payments run on. But Visa and other major networks, including Mastercard Inc.,have long been concerned about competition from newer payments firms. Square, Stripe and PayPal have all grown rapidly, enabling millions of businesses to sell their goods quickly and easily to people around the world.</p>\n<p>To send transactions over Visa’s rails, fintech firms pay fees that Visa sets. (That model is similar to that of other major networks.) 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Investigators want to know if those deals kept the payments firms from using other card networks or money-movement technologies, the people said.\nThe probe is part of an existing antitrust investigation that The Wall Street Journal previously reported. There is no indication that the department has reached any conclusions or is nearing the end of its probe.\nVisa is by far the biggest card network in the U.S., and for decades it has provided rails that debit- and credit-card payments run on. But Visa and other major networks, including Mastercard Inc.,have long been concerned about competition from newer payments firms. Square, Stripe and PayPal have all grown rapidly, enabling millions of businesses to sell their goods quickly and easily to people around the world.\nTo send transactions over Visa’s rails, fintech firms pay fees that Visa sets. (That model is similar to that of other major networks.) Some fintech companies enable payments that bypass Visa and other major card networks. For example, some allow payments to travel from one bank account to another, without using card rails.\nVisa has at times offered to lower fees or give other rewards in exchange for fintech firms sending more transactions over Visa rails rather than other networks or technologies.\nPricing arrangements of interest to the Justice Department include one where Visa offered financial incentives to PayPal, according to people familiar with the matter. Investigators are looking into whether those incentives convinced PayPal to encourage people to make payments via Visa-branded cards, some of those people said.\nA Square payment device. When the company was a small startup about a decade ago, Visa bought a stake.\nSeparately, investigators are looking into a deal Visa struck roughly six years ago related to Square’s Cash App, according to people familiar with the matter. Cash App lets people send money digitally to each other. Square was working with networks including Visa and lesser-known companies to route these transactions, the people said. (Visa bought a stake in Square about a decade ago when it was a small startup.)\nVisa offered to lower fees for Square and to send performance payments to the company that would get bigger when Square sent more transactions over Visa, people familiar with the matter said. 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