acquiring financial institution

English

Noun

acquiring financial institution (plural acquiring financial institutions)

  1. (finance) An institution that contracts with the bank and the merchant to enable credit card transactions. The acquirer deposits the credit card totals and debits the end-of-month processing fees from the merchants' accounts.

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