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Illustration of customer-based contactless card limit management

Payment Systems

Can a Card's Contactless Limit Be Managed on a Per-Customer Basis?

Contactless payment has greatly improved the user experience, yet its fixed transaction limit is a common complaint. Can this limit be managed dynamically per customer? This post covers the current situation, technical and regulatory requirements and the outlook.

Digital branchless bank concept with a mobile banking app on a smartphone

Payment Institutions & E-Money

Digital Banking Is Coming

Digitalization is showing itself first in banking and payment systems. The BRSA has announced it will begin issuing digital (branchless) bank licenses, opening the way for new digital banks in Turkey under an amendment to Banking Law No. 5411.

Table showing prepaid card loading, spending and cash withdrawal limits

Prepaid Cards

What Are the Transaction Limits for Anonymous Prepaid Cards?

Prepaid cards are among the most popular cards right now, and their use keeps growing. A prepaid card is not linked to a bank account, has no credit limit like a credit card, and can be used up to the amount loaded onto it.

Illustration explaining how post-purchase installment conversion works for credit card payments

Credit Card

What Is Post-Purchase Installment Conversion?

Post-purchase installment conversion lets credit card purchases and cash withdrawals be split into installments afterward for a fee. See the rules and limits banks apply.

Diagram illustrating how a recycling ATM reuses deposited banknotes for withdrawals

ATM

What Is a Recycling ATM?

The word literally means recycled or circulating. In payment systems, it refers to physically dispensing money deposited at ATMs to customers who want to withdraw cash, adding deposits straight into the withdrawal pool.

Illustration of an ATM with a voice menu for visually impaired customers

ATM

What Must Banks Do for Visually Impaired Customers?

Banks must provide the infrastructure for ATM access by visually impaired customers. Among ATMs side by side or less than 50 meters apart, only one needs to comply; all other ATMs must serve visually impaired customers. Details of Article 7 are below.

Illustration of a physician POS (doctor POS) device used in medical practices

Merchant & POS

What is Physician POS (Doctor POS)?

Doctor POS devices are POS terminals designed for physicians, dentists, and veterinarians who are income taxpayers, meeting the requirements set out in the General Communique of the Tax Procedure Law (VUK).

Credit card lying on a flat surface representing a supplementary card linked to a primary account

Credit Card

What Is a Supplementary Card?

A financial card product issued against a primary card, with its own card number, expiration date, authority, limit, and PIN. Using a supplementary card is ideal for making purchases from more than one card while keeping all spending on a single statement.