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Why ‘no foreign transaction fees’ hasn’t proliferated in the Canadian credit card market
– RewardsCanada.ca
A few years ago you may recall that we asked all the major credit and charge card issuers in Canada whether they would follow the trend seen in the United States with cards offering no foreign currency transaction fees. At the time none of the major issuers said they would but since then we have seen one small player come into the market with no forex fees, Chase. Recently there has been a lot of chatter from people asking why it hasn’t proliferated in Canada. I’ve had some of our readers email me, seen some bloggers and forum participants ask why we aren’t seeing more issuers offer no forex fee. I often asked that question myself and received the answer from a loyalty colleague of mine from Aimia when I spoke about the cobrand market in Canada at an industry conference last November. He had the same question as well and was able to get the information out of one of the major issuers as to why it isn’t being considered and with the recent spate of emails and talk on the web asking the same question I thought I would share that information with you…
