Maestro Global Rules (PDF) - MasterCard

United States Region
6.2 Card Standards and Specifications
A credit MasterCard card may be enhanced with the Maestro payment
application.
6.2 Card Standards and Specifications >>
6.2.1 Encoding Standards >>
6.2.1.8 Application Software and Personalization of Maestro on >>
Access Devices and Mobile Payment Devices
Effective 18 October 2013, an Issuer must ensure that each newly issued or
reissued PayPass-enabled Card, Access Device, and Mobile Payment Device is
personalized with the appropriate device type value.
6.2.3 Chip Card Standards >>
The Rules in Chapter 6, “Issuing,” Rule 6.2.3 in part 1 of this rulebook are
modified to include the following:
No payment application resident on a Chip Card issued in the U.S. region may
have a higher application priority than the Card’s primary application.
6.2.3.3 Card Authentication >>
The Rules in Chapter 6, “Issuing,” Rule 6.2.3.3 in part 1 of this rulebook are
modified as follows:
Any Chip Card issued or re-issued in the United States region:
1. May be configured to always require a POS Terminal to obtain online
authorization from the Issuer for a contact chip Transaction. Such Cards are
not required to support offline CAM for chip Transactions.
2. If configured to support offline authorization must support DDA or both
DDA and CDA as the offline CAM(s) for contact chip Transactions and
must not support SDA.
Any Maestro PayPass Card issued or re-issued in the United States region:
1. Must be configured to support both online and offline authorization of
Maestro PayPass Transactions; and
2. Must support CDA as the offline CAM for Maestro PayPass Transactions
and must not support SDA.
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