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Issuing
6.2 Card Standards and Specifications
6.1.3 Eligible Accounts
Customers may make only the following types of accounts available for access,
directly or indirectly, through the Interchange System:
Any checking, savings, NOW, current, sight deposit, share draft accounts (and
overdraft lines of credit linked to such accounts), or pooled accounts (linked to
a Corporation-approved prepaid Card Program), which are maintained by or on
behalf of a Cardholder with an Issuer.
Each Issuer must provide its Cardholders, wherever domiciled, with access to
their Cardholders’ Accounts in the country where such Issuer is Licensed, and
in such additional countries as permitted by the Corporation.
NOTE
Regional Rule variations on this topic appear in Chapter 17, “Europe Region,”
of this rulebook.
6.1.3.1 Ineligible Accounts
Any account held or serviced by an Acquiring-only Customer is not eligible
to be an Account. This provision does not prevent a Customer from using
the Interchange System to route ATM transactions to a network which does
not participate in the Corporation, if such use has been authorized by the
Corporation and is expressly permitted in the Rules.
6.1.4 Program Names
NOTE
Regional Rules on this topic appear in Chapter 17, “Europe Region,” of this
rulebook.
6.2 Card Standards and Specifications
NOTE
Additional regional Rules on this topic appear in Chapter 17, “Europe Region,”
of this rulebook.
NOTE
Refer to Appendix B, “Technical Specifications,” for additional information about
standards referred to in this section.
Any Issuer that allows a Cardbase to access the Interchange System must comply
with Rule 6.2, except in the case of a Mobile Payment Device. An Issuer of a
Mobile Payment Device must comply with Rules 6.2.1.3, 6.2.1.4, and 6.2.1.8.
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