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Old Mar 28, 2015 | 1:56 pm
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Originally Posted by reclusive46
Interestingly I've just discovered one of my UK cards doesn't support Dynamic currency conversion on chip transactions because they've not put the cards home currency/country on the chip, so a terminal doesn't know where the card was issued. I've seen one or two transactions in Asia, where it says "checking DCC amt and then nothing happens and the transaction continues in the countries currency. (Obviously on swipe transactions it would be done by the BIN, so DCC would still work).
I wonder if this could be a way issuers could prevent DCC from happening overseas.
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