Concerns that PayPal’s merchant conditions restrict competition and lead to increased prices for consumers have prompted Germany’s antitrust regulator the Federal Cartel Office (FCO) to announce an investigation into the payment service.
The regulator is to look in to PayPal’s rules on surcharging and presentation, as set out
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