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Name Description
9F42 Application Currency Code Indicates the currency in which the account is managed according to ISO 4217
9F44 Application Currency Exponent Indicates the implied position of the decimal point from the right of the amount represented according to ISO 4217
4F Application Identifier (AID) R11; card Identifies the application as described in ISO/IEC 7816-5
9F06 Application Identifier (AID) R11; terminal Identifies the application as described in ISO/IEC 7816-5
50 Application Label Mnemonic associated with the AID according to ISO/IEC 7816-5
9F3B Application Reference Currency 1R11;4 currency codes used between the terminal and the ICC when the Transaction Currency Code is different from the Application Currency Code; each code is 3 digits according to ISO 4217
9F43 Application Reference Currency Exponent Indicates the implied position of the decimal point from the right of the amount, for each of the 1R11;4 reference currencies represented according to ISO 4217
61 Application Template Contains one or more data objects relevant to an application directory entry according to ISO/IEC 7816-5
8C Card Risk Management Data Object List 1 (CDOL1) List of data objects (tag and length) to be passed to the ICC in the first GENERATE AC command
5F20 Cardholder Name Indicates cardholder name according to ISO 7813
9F0B Cardholder Name Extended Indicates the whole cardholder name when greater than 26 characters using the same coding convention as in ISO 7813
Certification Authority Public Key Check Sum A check value calculated on the concatenation of all parts of the Certification Authority Public Key (RID, Certification Authority Public Key Index, Certification Authority Public Key Modulus, Certification Authority Public Key Exponent) using SHA-1
84 Dedicated File (DF) Name Identifies the name of the DF as described in ISO/IEC 7816-4
73 Directory Discretionary Template Issuer discretionary part of the directory according to ISO/IEC 7816-5
A5 File Control Information (FCI) Proprietary Template Identifies the data object proprietary to this specification in the FCI template according to ISO/IEC 7816-4
6F File Control Information (FCI) Template Identifies the FCI template according to ISO/IEC 7816-4
5F53 International Bank Account Number (IBAN) Uniquely identifies the account of a customer at a financial institution as defined in ISO 13616.
5F28 Issuer Country Code Indicates the country of the issuer according to ISO 3166
5F55 Issuer Country Code (alpha2 format) Indicates the country of the issuer as defined in ISO 3166 (using a 2 character alphabetic code)
5F56 Issuer Country Code (alpha3 format) Indicates the country of the issuer as defined in ISO 3166 (using a 3 character alphabetic code)
71 Issuer Script Template 1 Contains proprietary issuer data for transmission to the ICC before the second GENERATE AC command
5F2D Language Preference 1R11;4 languages stored in order of preference, each represented by 2 alphabetical characters according to ISO 639 Note: EMVCo strongly recommends that cards be personalised with data element '5F2D' coded in lowercase, but that terminals accept the data element whether it is coded in upper or lower case.
9F15 Merchant Category Code Classifies the type of business being done by the merchant, represented according to ISO 8583:1993 for Card Acceptor Business Code
9F39 Point-of-Service (POS) Entry Mode Indicates the method by which the PAN was entered, according to the first two digits of the ISO 8583:1987 POS Entry Mode
80 Response Message Template Format 1 Contains the data objects (without tags and lengths) returned by the ICC in response to a command
5F30 Service Code Service code as defined in ISO/IEC 7813 for track 1 and track 2
9F1A Terminal Country Code Indicates the country of the terminal, represented according to ISO 3166
9F1F Track 1 Discretionary Data Discretionary part of track 1 according to ISO/IEC 7813
9F20 Track 2 Discretionary Data Discretionary part of track 2 according to ISO/IEC 7813
57 Track 2 Equivalent Data Contains the data elements of track 2 according to ISO/IEC 7813, excluding start sentinel, end sentinel, and Longitudinal Redundancy Check (LRC), as follows: Primary Account Number (n, var. up to 19) Field Separator (Hex 'D') (b) Expiration Date (YYMM) (n 4) Service Code (n 3) Discretionary Data (defined by individual payment systems) (n, var.) Pad with one Hex 'F' if needed to ensure whole bytes (b)
98 Transaction Certificate (TC) Hash Value Result of a hash function specified in Book 2, Annex B3.1
5F2A Transaction Currency Code Indicates the currency code of the transaction according to ISO 4217
5F36 Transaction Currency Exponent Indicates the implied position of the decimal point from the right of the transaction amount represented according to ISO 4217
9F3D Transaction Reference Currency Exponent Indicates the implied position of the decimal point from the right of the transaction amount, with the Transaction Reference Currency Code represented according to ISO 4217
9C Transaction Type Indicates the type of financial transaction, represented by the first two digits of ISO 8583:1987 Processing Code

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