Effective date:
April 12, 2024
Processor:
Visa Platform Connect
Regions:
CEMEA, LAC, and Europe regions
Services:
Authorization request and response
Feature
As of April 12, 2024, changes are being made to support the migration of these seven French territories from the LAC and CEMEA regions to the Europe region:
  • Guadeloupe (Country code 312 GP) from Region LAC to Region Europe 3
  • French Guiana (Guyana 254 GF) from Region LAC 5 to Region Europe 3
  • Martinique from Region LAC (474 MQ) to Region Europe 3
  • Saint‐Martin (French Part) from Region LAC (663 MF) to Region Europe 3
  • Saint‐Barthélemy (652 BL) from Region LAC to Region Europe 3
  • Réunion from Region CEMEA (638 RE) to Region Europe 3
  • Mayotte from Region CEMEA (175 YT) to Region Europe 3
Acquirers
Acquirers based in the French territories that are moving to the Europe region must support strong customer authentication (SCA)-related fields that correspond to this data in the TC 33 capture file:
  • Record: CP07 TCR9
  • EU Processing Position: 1–9, 29–140
  • Field: EU Processing
Merchants
Merchants transacting in the listed countries must include the SCA indicator in the transaction request. They must also be prepared to receive the SCA validation results in the transaction response.