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Review your credit card fee policies before traveling outside the U.S. to avoid surprise costs. If needed, apply for a credit card without travel-related surcharges and fees. To avoid high conversion ...

You're visiting another country and making a purchase with your credit card. Then, the credit card terminal asks if you'd like to pay in U.S. dollars or in the local currency. This might sound like a ...

Even if you have a no-foreign-transaction-fee card, you could be spending extra money on purchases made in foreign currency unless you avoid dynamic currency conversion. Avoid credit and debit fees by ...

Two payment processors are striking deals with property management system providers to offer "dynamic currency conversion" through client hotels. Planet Payment and Fexco claim the process of ...

What Is Dynamic Currency Conversion? Dynamic currency conversion (DCC), and sometimes referred to as cardholder preferred currency (CPC), allows customers to pay for a product or service in a foreign ...

Processing a credit card charge for overseas purchases used to be pretty simple. You swiped your card while on vacation, your bank changed the money from pesos or euros into greenbacks, and the amount ...

Dynamic currency conversion allows consumers to choose to use their home currency when transacting with retailers, restaurants and other services in foreign countries. Customers view a bill showing ...