Format: ansLength: 40Fixed length
DE 43
Card Acceptor Name / Location
What it is
Merchant name, city, and country in fixed subfields — the text that ends up on the cardholder statement.
Example values
ACME COFFEE 42 AMSTERDAM NLVisa layout: name (25), city (13), country (2) = 40 chars. Mastercard uses name (22), space, city (13), space, country (3).Specification reference
Defined in ISO 8583:1987 (base). Card networks publish their own dialect tables (Visa BASE I / V.I.P., Mastercard CIS) that refine formats, lengths, and — for private-use elements — the entire layout. Always confirm against the interface specification you implement.