Securities: Brokers/Dealers

Technical Definition

Identifies the purchase, with a Mastercard or Maestro card, of travelers cheques, foreign currency, or money orders. This MCC may also be used to identify transactions in which a merchant accepts a Mastercard or Maestro card for payment of an existing debt, such as a private label card or vehicle loan. In addition, this MCC must be used to identify transactions involving the purchase of cryptocurrency.

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: Security Brokers/Dealers
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.