The surcharge that flashes up before you take out cash at a corner shop or a petrol station averaged $3.22 (£2.42) in Bankrate's 2025 survey, easy to wave through without a second thought. Those small, forgettable charges are now the basis of a proposed payout worth $167.5 million (£125.6 million), and the window to claim a piece of it is open.
Visa and Mastercard have agreed to settle a long-running antitrust case brought on behalf of American cardholders who paid fees at independent, non-bank cash machines.
