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Acquiring Financial Institution

Acquiring financial institutions are intermediaries between credit card companies and merchants. Acquiring financial institutions are responsible for the processing of merchant’s credit card transactions. The acquiring financial institution will process the transactions daily and will settle the transactions with the credit card issuer. Merchants must deal with an acquiring financial institution in order to receive payment for credit card transactions.

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