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#Major Industry Identifier (MII)
#
#The first digit of a credit card number is the Major Industry Identifier (MII), which represents the category of entity which issued the card. MII digits represent the following issuer categories:
#0 – ISO/TC 68 and other future industry assignments
#1 – Airlines
#2 – Airlines and other future industry assignments
#3 – Travel and entertainment and banking/financial
#4 – Banking and financial
#5 – Banking and financial
#6 – Merchandising and banking/financial
#7 – Petroleum and other future industry assignments
#8 – Healthcare, telecommunications and other future industry assignments
#9 – National assignment
#For example, American Express, Diner's Club, Carte Blanche, and JCB are in the travel and entertainment category; VISA, MasterCard, and Discover are in the banking and financial category (Discover being in the Merchandising and banking/financial category); and Sun Oil and Exxon are in the petroleum category.


module CreditCardValidations::Mmi

  ISSUER_CATEGORIES = {
      '0' =>'ISO/TC 68 nd other industry assignments',
      '1' => 'Airlines',
      '2' => 'Airlines and other industry assignments',
      '3' => 'Travel and entertainment and banking/financial',
      '4' => 'Banking and financial',
      '5' => 'Banking and financial',
      '6' => 'Merchandising and banking/financial',
      '7' => 'Petroleum and other industry assignments',
      '8' => 'Healthcare, telecommunications and other industry assignments',
      '9' => 'National assignment'

  }

  def issuer_category
    ISSUER_CATEGORIES[@number.to_s[0]]
  end
end

Version data entries

8 entries across 8 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
credit_card_validations-1.4.7	lib/credit_card_validations/mmi.rb
credit_card_validations-1.4.6	lib/credit_card_validations/mmi.rb
credit_card_validations-1.4.5	lib/credit_card_validations/mmi.rb
credit_card_validations-1.4.4	lib/credit_card_validations/mmi.rb
credit_card_validations-1.4.3	lib/credit_card_validations/mmi.rb
credit_card_validations-1.4.2	lib/credit_card_validations/mmi.rb
credit_card_validations-1.4.1	lib/credit_card_validations/mmi.rb
credit_card_validations-1.4.0	lib/credit_card_validations/mmi.rb