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Illustration of mobile commerce: shopping and payments made on a smartphone

E-commerce

What Is Mobile Commerce?

In recent years, data exchange over wireless mobile devices has become much faster and more secure. In 2019, mobile devices were used in 54.5 percent of purchases made by e-commerce users. With the steady growth in mobile users, mobile commerce keeps gaining ground.

Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey and BKM logos

Payment System Institutions

Central Bank Becomes a Partner of BKM

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.

Recurring card payments and subscriptions illustration

Merchant & POS

What Is Recurring Billing?

Recurring billing is the automatic collection of payments at set intervals and amounts by storing the customer's card details on a secure, PCI DSS-certified infrastructure.

Illustration of an ATM card trapping fraud scheme

ATM

ATM Fraud Methods: Card Trapping

ATMs generally hold your bank/credit card inside the card reader slot until the transaction is completed. Fraudsters insert foreign objects such as paper or adhesive-coated cards into the reader to trap the customer's card inside.

UnionPay logo

Merchant & POS

What Is UnionPay?

UnionPay International (UPI) is a China UnionPay subsidiary founded in November 2012. Together with more than 1,000 institutions worldwide, UPI provides international card acceptance in 160 countries and card issuance in more than 40 countries and regions.

Diagram illustrating ISO 8583 field F23, the card sequence number

ISO 8583

ISO 8583 Field Descriptions (F23)

F23 - CARD SEQUENCE NUMBER: Information used to distinguish cards sharing the same card number. For example, the Card Sequence Number is incremented by 1 when a card is renewed. In an authorization transaction, if the F22 value is '05x'...

Illustration showing different card printing methods

Credit Card

What Are the Card Printing Types?

While it is true that, with technological advancement, the trend of using payment transactions without a physical card via mobile phones has increased, there are many reasons why cards are still physically printed and delivered to customers.

Close-up photo of a cracked payment card

Credit Card

My Card Is Broken. What Should I Do?

If your card is broken, call your bank's Customer Contact Center to request a renewal. Since the card number usually stays the same after renewal, this is convenient for you. If you'll keep using the card, don't set it to Closed or Cancelled status.

Illustration of a smartphone used as a mobile POS payment terminal

Merchant & POS

Are POS Terminals Becoming Obsolete?

Today, as credit cards shift from physical to virtual use, a similar move has come from the POS side. We have begun to see mobile phones used as POS devices becoming a serious rival to physical POS terminals.

Illustration of digital transformation in payment systems

Merchant & POS

How Digital Are You in Payment Systems?

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.

Collection POS web-based payment management dashboard

Merchant & POS

What is a Collection POS?

A Collection POS is a secure, web-based payment platform through which businesses and institutions manage their collections and generate the reports they need. Many similar products exist on the market under different names.