# ISO 18245:2003 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards For ISO 18245:2003, item title is Retail financial services — Merchant category codes; status code is 9599; successor is ISO 18245:2023; withdrawn / published date is 2003-04-01, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05. - **Identifier:** ISO 18245:2003 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Item title:** Retail financial services — Merchant category codes _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Successor:** ISO 18245:2023 - **Withdrawn / published date:** 2003-04-01 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ ## What the source says > 33365,IS,,ISO 18245:2003,Retail financial services — Merchant category codes,Services financiers aux particuliers — Codes de catégorie marchande,2003-04-01,1,['03.060'],ISO/TC 68/SC 9,9599,,[79450],['en'],29,"
ISO 18245:2003 defines code values used to enable the classification of merchants into specific categories based on the type of business, trade or services supplied. Values are specified only for those merchant categories that are generally expected to originate retail financial transactions.
ISO 18245:2003 also establishes the procedures for a Registration and Maintenance Management Group (RMMG), which considers requests for new code values, and a Maintenance Agency (MA), whi ## Source - https://isopublicstorageprod.blob.core.windows.net/opendata/_latest/iso_deliverables_metadata/csv/iso_deliverables_metadata.csv Last verified: 2026-08-05. Review by: 2027-02-01. Part of [Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards](https://referencesource.org/iso-standard-supersessions/).