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Payment systems expert and technology executive
Arif Ünal is a technology executive with more than 20 years of experience in banking, fintech and payment systems. He writes about card payments (issuing and acquiring), POS, ATM, e-money, FAST and Turkish payments regulation (BRSA and CBRT). He has held senior roles at Finagotech and managed payment systems and digital banking teams at Emlak Katılım, Vakıf Katılım and Türkiye Finans. He holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul University and an M.Sc. in Management Information Systems from Marmara University.
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FAST
With the Easy Address system, your mobile phone number has become more important. If you cancel your number, notify your bank as soon as possible, delete the outdated definitions and register your current information again.
FAST
An Easy Address is defined through the channels of the bank holding the account. Likewise, an Easy Address can be cancelled and deleted through the channels of the bank where the account is held.
FAST
Yes. For example, a mobile phone number linked to an account as an Easy Address can be updated to an email address. The Easy Address system uses the most recently changed information and automatically deletes the previous one.
FAST
You cannot define unlimited Easy Addresses. You can define at most 5 (for example, 2 phone numbers, 2 email addresses and 1 Turkish ID number), and each Easy Address can be linked to only one account.
FAST
The Easy Addressing System (KOLAS) is one of the layered services of FAST, the Central Bank's instant funds transfer system, developed and operated by BKM. It lets users send money via phone number or email instead of an IBAN.
FAST
New banks are added to the Easy Address system every day. Here is the list of banks that supported the Easy Address System at the time, and where to find the current list.
FAST
The Instant and Continuous Transfer of Funds (FAST) System lets customers send payment instructions 24/7 through bank systems, independent of EFT. This article explains what Easy Address is, how to register one and how transfers work.
Payment Systems
Law No. 7192 amends Law No. 6493 and brings changes on payment services, e-money and open banking, including the transfer of regulatory and supervisory powers from the BRSA to the CBRT and the addition of PSD2-style services.
Payment Systems
Payment and electronic money institutions have had a big impact on the development of payment systems. A sector research report prepared by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance helps explain this ecosystem.
Merchant & POS
Winning customers is one of the most important things in business, but keeping them satisfied matters just as much. If you collect payments at regular intervals, such as monthly, these tips will help you improve the success rate of recurring collections.
Security
When you visit a website, the protocol it supports appears at the left of the web address. Secure data transfers likewise use protocols that support http or https. Let's first take a brief look at what HTTP and HTTPS are.
Security
The number of companies offering cloud computing and storage has grown sharply in recent years. AWS, founded in 2006, is the world's largest cloud computing and storage provider, ahead of Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and IBM.