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Payment Institutions & E-Money
5 August 2021 was a very important day for Turkish payment systems. The CBRT's amendment to the Communiqué on the International Bank Account Number (IBAN) allows payment institutions and e-money institutions to create IBANs as well. This is...
Payment Systems
Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is a security requirement introduced under the EU's Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) to increase security and reduce fraud in online payment transactions. SCA requires two of three independent authentication factors.
Credit Card
The payment card industry is arguably the sector most affected by technology and the quickest to adapt new developments. With mobile devices, payment systems have changed a lot - we now prefer using our credit cards virtually rather than physically.
Merchant & POS
AFL (Application File Locator) is the field that shows where on the card the data needed for the authorization transaction is located. AFL is a list of the application data records on the card, and the terminal uses it to read the application data.
Credit Card
A credit card is a loan granted by the bank, so it must follow certain criteria and stay within a limit. As card usage changes over time, the need for a higher limit can arise.
Merchant & POS
Financial institutions, cash register (OKC) manufacturers, and private integrators run this Ministry-authorized system under Communique No. 507 on the Tax Procedure Law, enabling mobile sales with electronic financial documents.
Security
Published by the PCI SSC, Software-based PIN Entry on COTS (SPoC) is a standard that provides a software-based approach for protecting PIN entry on commercial off-the-shelf devices such as smartphones and tablets.
Merchant & POS
BKM publishes card usage data every three months. In the first half of 2020, card payments reached TL 500 billion, contactless payments tripled, and online card payments surged in the electronics and clothing sectors.
Merchant & POS
According to the Central Bank, the maximum commission rates banks may charge merchants are based on a reference rate: the latest two-week weighted average interest rate on 32–45 day Turkish lira deposits.
Merchant & POS
Below are the definitions of the cornerstone terms of payment systems, as established by the Banks Association of Turkey (TBB): debit card, credit card, merchant, cardholder, and more.
Payment Systems
Card type information is used in card schemes such as MasterCard, Visa, and TROY. The card types and card type codes used in the Visa system include Credit, Prepaid, Debit, Deferred Debit, and Charge Card.
Payment Systems
This MASAK General Communiqué sets out the simplified customer due diligence measures that obliged parties must follow under the regulation on preventing money laundering and terrorist financing.