Merchant category codes, sometimes called MCC codes or merchant codes, classify merchants based on the products or services sold. Credit card issuers use these codes to determine how to categorize ...

A merchant category code — or an MCC — is a four-digit number used by credit card companies to classify businesses for payments, taxation and rewards purposes. MCCs affect the interchange rates and ...

Want to get the lowdown on someone's interests and priorities? Look no further than their credit card, thanks to a tracking system that stores data on where credit card customers use their cards. "The ...

Want to get the lowdown on someone's interests and priorities? Look no further than their credit card, thanks to a tracking system that stores data on where credit card customers use their cards. "The ...

MasterCard and Visa assign a Merchant Category Code (MCC) to all businesses that accept credit cards. The MCC represents the type of goods/services that a business sells. For example, HEB, Target and ...

US credit card giants said they will implement a new merchant category code for the nation’s gun retailers, which gun control activists say will help flag potential mass shooters and gun traffickers.

Visa, Mastercard and Discover announced they will pause a plan to implement a new merchant category code for the nation’s gun retailers after political pressure from Republicans. The measure that was ...

Now that the International Organization for Standardization has approved a new code to identify purchases at stores that sell guns and ammunition, many groups are speaking up about threats to privacy ...

Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express on Thursday said they're halting plans to adopt a new merchant code for guns and ammunition stores following resistance from lawmakers in certain states ...