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Credit Card
A credit card is one of the most important payment tools in our lives. Of course, certain criteria must be met to be eligible for one. So what are the minimum requirements for getting a credit card?
Payment Institutions & E-Money
A payment institution is a legal entity authorized under the Law to provide and execute payment services. It must be a joint stock company meeting the conditions in Article 14 of Law No. 6493. This post sets out the services listed in Article 12 and the exclusions.
Payment Systems
NFC is a data transfer technology developed by Sony and Philips in late 2002 and adopted as an ISO/IEC standard in 2003. ISO/IEC 18092/ECMA-340 (NFCIP-1) is one of the two globally accepted NFC standards.
Credit Card
In the past, banking could only be done at branches, but with technology, customers can now check and pay credit card debt through ATMs, branches, internet banking, mobile banking, and the PTT post office.
Payment System Institutions
According to the CBRT's official website, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey has become the controlling shareholder of the Interbank Card Center (BKM), using the authority granted by Law No. 7192.
Payment System Institutions
TROY, Türkiye's domestic payment method founded by the Interbank Card Center (BKM) and licensed by the BRSA and the Central Bank in March 2016, is being spun off into a separate company.
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.
Contactless
As end users, we have come to love contactless payments, which are becoming a bigger part of daily life. So what features let contactless cards make payments without touching the POS terminal? There are two classes: MSD cards and Contactless EMV cards.
Credit Card
A digital wallet is an electronic wallet where credit, debit, or prepaid cards are registered in one place. Cardholders can securely add, store, update, and delete card details, then pay with a single click.
Payment Systems
The BRSA has published a draft regulation amending the Regulation on Debit Cards and Credit Cards. It introduces the card scheme definition, a customer right to choose the card scheme, and an obligation for acquirers to define licensed schemes on merchant POS devices.
Merchant & POS
Digitalization has brought major change to payment systems, just as it has to every area of our lives. Its biggest impact has been turning the financial world into something virtual, spanning IoT, mobile payments, blockchain and biometrics.
Credit Card
Current information: this post describes the limit that applied at the time of publication. According to a BRSA letter to banks, the PIN-free contactless transaction limit, raised to 750 TL in July 2022, will become 1500 TL from 1 July 2024.