High-Risk Securities and Cryptocurrency Indicator Data
API allows you to pass additional data in transactions. It may include industry data relating to airline, healthcare, or data related to the transaction (internet, order, or even custom data). The supplementary data you pass for a transaction is stored on the Mastercard Gateway against that transaction.
If you are a merchant who submits transactions that involve the purchase of cryptocurrencies or high-risk securities, you must inform the issuer by providing certain indicators in your transaction request to the gateway.
Cryptocurrency indicator only applies to merchants with Merchant Category Code (MCC) 6051(Quasi Cash—Merchant or Non-Financial Institutions – Foreign Currency, Non-Fiat Currency) processing Mastercard, Maestro or Visa card transactions.
In addition to the standard fields for a Verify, Authorize, Pay transaction, provide the order.purchaseType field to indicate a high-risk securities or a cryptocurrency transaction. You can set the field to either of the following values:
CRYPTOCURRENCY: If you are a merchant with MCC 6051 (Quasi Cash—Merchant or Non-Financial Institutions–Foreign Currency, Non-Fiat Currency) and this transaction is for the purchase of cryptocurrency.HIGH_RISK_SECURITIES: If you are a merchant with MCC 6211 (Securities – Brokers/Dealers) and this transaction is for the purchase of high-risk securities.
High-Risk Securities and Cryptocurrency Indicator Data API Reference[REST][NVP]