Originally Posted by corvette

i cant speak for other processors but i can tell you that we have been testing out different ways to improve throughput, not move backwards. In fact, during the past 5 years, our acceptance rate has steadily improved and had never gone the other way. Right now specifically, we have been working on figuring out how to get more transactions out of EU countries and countries that historically had less volume, the dynamics of traffic outside the US has changed dramatically over the past 2-3 years and were trying to make sure that we are squeezing all we can out of it. As well as some other neat things that I can?t talk about. I normally don?t comment on these sort of things, but this thread compelled me to do so.