Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Physical characteristics of the card
5 Location and dimensions of embossed data
6 Physical and performance characteristics of the magnetic material
  6.1 Physical characteristics
  6.2 Performance characteristics
7 Encoding specifications
8 Data content of track 3
  8.1 Field 1: start sentinel
  8.2 Field 2, format code
  8.3 Field 3: primary account number (PAN)
  8.4 Field 4: field separator (FS)
  8.5 Field 5: country code
  8.6 Field 6: currency
  8.7 Field 7: currency exponent
  8.8 Field 8: amount authorized per cycle period
  8.9 Field 9: amount remaining this cycle
  8.10 Field 10: cycle begin
  8.11 Field 11: cycle length
  8.12 Field 12: retry count
  8.13 Field 13: personal identification number control
       parameters (PINPARM)
  8.14 Field 14: interchange control
  8.15 Field 15: type of account (TA) and service restriction
       (SRI) - PAN
  8.16 Field 16: type of account and service
       restrictions - SAN-1
  8.17 Field 17: type of account and services
       restrictions - SAN-2
  8.18 Field 18: expiry date
  8.19 Field 19: card sequence number
  8.20 Field 20: card security number
  8.21 Field 21: first subsidiary account number (SAN-1)
  8.22 Field 22: field separator
  8.23 Field 23: second subsidiary account number (SAN-2)
  8.24 Field 24: field separator
  8.25 Field 25: relay marker
  8.26 Field 26: crypto check digits (CCD)
  8.27 Field 27: additional data
  8.28 Field 28: end sentinel
  8.29 Field 29: longitudinal redundancy check (LRC)
Annex A (normative) Primary account number formats

Abstract

Establishes specifications for cards issued by or acceptable to the banking industry and is intended to permit interchange based on the use of magnetic stripe encoded information.

General Product Information

Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	American Bankers Association
Pages
ISBN
Committee	X9
Supersedes	ANSI X9.1 : 1991