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DOLLAR CREDIT [8 records]

Record 1 2015-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Institutions
DEF

The rate charged to a merchant by a bank for providing debit and credit card services.

CONT

This fee, known as the merchant discount rate, is applied to the dollar volume of credit card purchases and is deducted from the merchant's transaction account.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Institutions financières
DEF

Taux qu’une institution financière impose au commerçant pour le traitement et le règlement de transactions réalisées par carte de crédit.

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
OBS

As a means of payment, money is something concrete(a coin, a dollar bill, a credit entry in a bank account).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
CONT

Les monnaies concrètes sont constituées par des matières pourvues de signes caractéristiques permettant de les identifier.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
CONT

In 2005, both VISA and MasterCard implemented additional fees for purchases made outside a credit card's country of origin known as a "cross-border assessment" or "foreign transaction charge" : these fees are a percentage of the original dollar amount of the sale that is then charged in addition to the sale amount. These fees are often shown as a separate line on a customer statement following the original charge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
CONT

Les frais d'évaluation de MasterCard de 0,064 % et les frais d'évaluation transfrontaliers MasterCard sont de 0,30 %.

Spanish

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Record 4 2009-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
CONT

In 2005, both Visa and MasterCard implemented additional fees for purchases made outside a credit card's country of origin. Known as a "cross-border assessment" or "foreign transaction charge", these fees are a percentage of the original dollar amount of the sale that is then charged in addition to the sale amount.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
CONT

Frais de transaction à l'étranger (seront convertis en devise canadienne selon les règles applicables de MasterCard® International): 2,95 %.

Spanish

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Record 5 2008-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
CONT

To open the account... The cheque must be preprinted(not a counter cheque) and must be a Canadian dollar cheque from a Canadian bank, trust company or credit union chequing account.

CONT

Deposit U.S. or Canadian dollar checks.

OBS

The preferred Canadian spelling form is "cheque," not "check."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
CONT

Les frais s'appliquant aux demandes de résidence permanente doivent être payés au moyen d'une traite bancaire ou d'un chèque en dollars canadiens [...]

Key term(s)
  • chèque libellé en dollars canadiens

Spanish

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Record 6 2008-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
CONT

Collection & Enforcement Expenses ... a) Line of credit overlimit fee $20.00 (Applies to each overlimit/overdrawing transaction by a member ...)

OBS

Your credit line is the dollar amount you are authorized to spend on your card. If you go over this limit, you will be charged an overlimit fee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
OBS

En cas de dépassement de votre ligne de crédit, des frais sont imputés, calculés [au] prorata temporis sur le montant du dépassement.

Spanish

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Record 7 1995-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Planning
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
OBS

If public policy succeeds in stepping up net investment by militant easy credit or other policies, how can consumption spending be cut down to prevent excessive dollar demands from precipitating inflation? Primarily, by having the government pursue an austere fiscal policy; raising tax rates and cutting down on marginal expenditures, thereby contriving a chronic budget surplus to offset easy money.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification économique
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques

Spanish

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Record 8 1987-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Accounting
CONT

Analyzing the significant volume of credit notes whose high dollar value required the approval of the director, Capital Region has found that 85% of the dollar values involved were customer refunds. These customer refunds occurred when goods were returned in resale condition and a customer credit invoice is then issued to offset the original invoice.

OBS

The distinction between this term and "credit note" is unclear.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité

Spanish

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