Quasi Cash: Merchant

Technical Definition

Identifies the purchase, with a Mastercard or Maestro card, of travelers cheques, foreign currency, money orders, precious metals, or savings bonds at a Mastercard customer financial institution location. This MCC may also be used to identify transactions in which a customer accepts a Mastercard or Maestro card in direct payment of an existing debt, such as a private label card or vehicle loan. This MCC may be used for non-face-to-face transactions, such as those facilitated through the Internet.

Related Codes

MCC 6010: Financial Institutions - Manual
MCC 6012: Financial Institutions -

Cross-Industry Classification

This code is part of the ISO 18245 standard used by global payment networks. It may correspond to the following alternate classification systems:

VISA: Non-Financial Institutions - Foreign Currency, Liquid and Cryptocurrency Assets (for example: Cryptocurrency), Money
MASTERCARD: Excluded

Associated Merchants

The following merchants are known to historically trigger this category for rewards calculation:

No specific merchants linked yet. AxeTip is currently indexing the global merchant database for this code.