Effective date:
October 18, 2024
Processor:
Visa Platform Connect
Regions:
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Germany, Gibraltar, Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Martinique, Mayotte, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Reunion, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey
Services:
Authorization verification transaction response
Feature
As of October 18, 2024, acquirers in certain countries in the Europe region that process AFTs or OCTs must support Account Name Inquiry requests for their merchants that choose to request name verification.
Acquirers
Acquirers that send account verification request messages with the account owner related data in Field 56—Customer Related Data in TLV format Dataset ID 05—Account Owner Data must support the receipt of Field 34—Acceptance Environment Data (TLV Format) in response messages.
Merchants
Merchants must be prepared to receive account holder type values (
001
 - primary account holder or
002
 - secondary account holder) in this field in an authorization response:
  • REST API:
    paymentInformation.accountFeatures.accountHolderType
  • SCMP API:
    account_holder_type
  • Simple Order API:
    accountHolder_type