China UnionPay (CUP) will be issuing credit cards to their customers in January 2019 with a new 8-series BIN range. An upcoming release of SpeedLine, available in early 2019, will support this new range. These cards use the Discover network for processing and will act like Discover cards when entered into SpeedLine.
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Support for New UnionPay Credit Card BIN Range
Posted by Jim Allison on Dec 18, 2018 8:00:00 AM
Topics: Monetra Updates, Credit Cards
Regarding Vantiv WorldPay Notice to Discover-Accepting Merchants
Posted by SpeedLine Support on Dec 6, 2018 3:42:03 PM
Some SpeedLine customers have been notified by Vantiv Worldpay that all Discover-accepting merchants will need to support new 8-series BIN range cards from UnionPay, starting in January 2019.
Topics: Credit Cards, Worldpay