You’re both right. The rewards are indeed mostly covered by the processing fees, but that means after covering infrastructure expenses etc., the banks are operating at a net loss (or breakeven at best), meaning they still have to fleece someone on their interest payments.
The interest rate is charged if you don’t make your payments. Otherwise, you get rewards each time you spend which makes things a little cheaper.
The “rewards” come off the backs of poor people paying these usurious interest rates.
They actually cone from the charges they push onto businesses to process the payments. The interest rates are just profit
You’re both right. The rewards are indeed mostly covered by the processing fees, but that means after covering infrastructure expenses etc., the banks are operating at a net loss (or breakeven at best), meaning they still have to fleece someone on their interest payments.