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Latin America and the Caribbean Region
7.18 Card Capture
Customers that acquire Transactions must make available for connection to the
Interchange System at least seventy-five percent (75%) of their eligible ATMs
within one year (1) of the approval of its application for a License.
7.17.2 POS Terminal Connection to the Interchange System
7.18 Card Capture
In addition to the Rules in Chapter 7, “Acquiring,” Rule 7.17 in part 1 of this
rulebook, the following applies:
Customers that acquire Transactions must make available for connection to the
Interchange System at least seventy-five percent (75%) of their eligible POS
Terminals within one (1) year of the approval of its application for a License.
7.18.1 POS Transactions
7.23 ATM Access Fees
In addition to the second paragraph of Chapter 7, “Acquiring,” Rule 7.18.1 in
part 1 of this rulebook, the following applies:
Card Capture is not supported for intraregional POS Transactions.
7.23.1 Domestic Transactions
The following replaces Chapter 7, “Acquiring,” Rule 7.23.1, paragraph 1 in
part 1 of this rulebook:
Upon complying with the ATM Access Fee notification requirements of the
Rules, Acquirers in the Latin American and the Caribbean Region countries
listed below may assess an ATM Access Fee on an intracountry Transaction
so long as the Acquirer applies the ATM Access Fee in a consistent and
nondiscriminatory fashion.
For the purposes of this Rule 7.23.1, ATM Access Fees shall mean a fee
charged by an Acquirer in connection with any financial Transaction initiated
at that Acquirer’s ATM with a Card, which fee, is added to the amount of the
Transaction transmitted to the Issuer. Further, an intracountry Transaction shall
mean a Transaction initiated with a Card that was issued in the same country in
which the ATM Transaction took place and that Transaction occurred in any of
the following Latin American and the Caribbean Region countries:
Argentina Brazil
Chile Colombia
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