In an article titled "A Card Fee Still Hides in the Luggage", Ron Lieber writes for the New York Times how the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act that is now US law does not address currency conversion fees charged on transactions outside the US. He fears that because "the banks stand to lose a lot of revenue" because of the new law that "they’ll want to make it up somewhere, so they may feel emboldened to raise the currency conversion fees further."

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