Author
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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General
The Intellectual Capital Development Association, a high-value-added association that brings together experienced organizational managers to build knowledge communities and spread intellectual capital throughout society, is now live with a new website.
Payment Systems
This guide, prepared in line with the regulation and its annex on TR QR Code principles and rules, gives sample mobile payment flows and defines the TR QR Code data organization for merchant-presented and consumer-presented models.
Payment Systems
The Central Bank has published a guide setting out the detailed technical principles and rules for using TR Karekod in card payment transactions, based on the TR Karekod Regulation and the TR Karekod Principles and Rules.
Payment Systems
The communiqué on the information systems of payment and electronic money institutions and the data sharing services of payment service providers was published in Official Gazette No. 31676 on 01.12.2021 and entered into force.
Laws & Regulations
This guide sets out the procedures and principles for reporting suspicious transactions for obliged parties other than the groups individually listed in the AML regulation, such as banks and insurers.
Payment Systems
The CBRT has published a guide on reporting persons and institutions that provide payment services without authorization. Under Law No. 6493, offering such services outside the CBRT's published list of payment and e-money institutions is a criminal offense.
Credit Card
Banks must go through a costly, arduous process to issue cards (issuer) and accept cards (acquirer), paying high entry fees to international license providers and local organizations such as BKM.
Laws & Regulations
BKM (Interbank Card Center) membership is available in 3 statuses: bank, institution or HSK. This post explains the eligibility criteria for each status, the 12-month certification requirement and the BKM fee principles.
Credit Card
Mir means World and Peace. It is a national payment system established by a law adopted by the Central Bank of Russia on 1 May 2017. It is currently accepted mostly by Russia-based companies, but acceptance is gradually spreading.
Payment Systems
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Visa and Mastercard suspended services for sanctioned Russian banks. This post explains the impact on cardholders and merchants, and Russia's MIR and UnionPay alternatives.
Payment System Institutions
Thanks to the API developed by BKM, BKM Express member merchants can automatically update the BIN lists of cards issued by all banks in Türkiye and offer installments and reward points more efficiently.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
Payment Services Data Sharing Services refers to the data sharing services used in the payment services set out in subparagraphs (f) or (g) of the first paragraph of Article 12 of Law No. 6493.