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Diagram of BKM public collection solutions including transport and payment gateway services

Payment System Institutions

What Are BKM Public Collection Solutions?

BKM (Interbank Card Center) was founded in 1990 to clear and reconcile credit and debit card payments. This post covers its public collection solutions: contactless transport in Konya, SGK premium payments and e-Government gateway fees.

Conceptual illustration of competing players vying for power in agentic commerce

General

Agentic Commerce Series – Part 6

Who will win in Agentic Commerce? Owning the customer used to be a huge advantage. Once an agent starts deciding on the customer's behalf, where does the real power move to?

Diagram illustrating the payment systems framework overseen by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

Laws & Regulations

What are payment systems according to the CBRT?

Payment systems are the instruments, processes and rules that enable the transfer of funds or securities between participants. This post explains the conditions a structure must meet to qualify as a payment system and the Turkish regulations that govern them.

Payment Services Directive PSD1 and PSD2 overview

Payment Institutions & E-Money

What Is the Payment Services Directive?

The first Payment Services Directive (PSD1) was adopted in 2007 to provide the legal basis for a single EU payments market. PSD2, Directive 2015/2366, replaced it to make payments safer, more integrated and more competitive.

Person entering card details on an online payment page

E-commerce

What is Online Payment?

Making payments over the internet using a card is called online payment. Learn what online payment systems are used for and what happens behind an online transaction, from the payment gateway to the issuing bank.

Illustration representing the products and services KKB offers directly to its member institutions

Credit Card

What Products and Services Does KKB Offer Directly to Members?

KKB was established, under banking law, to enable the exchange of all kinds of information and documents among at least five banks, and it also shares credit information about customers. The Credit Bureau of Turkey also serves deposit banks, participation banks, financial institutions, and more.

Ödeme İste request to pay on FAST illustration

Payment Systems

What Is “Ödeme İste” (Request to Pay)?

The Ödeme İste (Request to Pay) System is a value-added service aiming to improve the customer experience in FAST, Türkiye's instant and continuous funds transfer system.

Amazon Web Services cloud computing illustration

Security

Why Is AWS (Amazon Web Services) Preferred?

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.

Payment systems in Türkiye overview

Payment Systems

What Are the Payment Systems in Türkiye?

When we hear “payment systems”, card transactions at POS terminals or ATMs usually come to mind. Let's look together at the payment systems recognized by the Central Bank.