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How a business card works for corporate companies

Credit Card

How Does a Business Card Work?

A business card is a card corporate companies use to manage their financial transactions. The application is made in the company's name, and a virtual primary card that is not physically printed is created for the company. Additional cards are then issued to users.

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 representing Visa card types used in payment processing

Payment Systems

What is the Card Type Information Used in the Visa System?

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.

Illustration of voice shopping and mobile payments with Mastercard

Merchant & POS

MasterCard Is Getting Ready for Voice Shopping

Payment systems once meant a physical card and a PIN on a POS device. Digitalization that began with contactless transactions has accelerated with mobile payments, and MasterCard is now working on voice shopping and Soft POS in Turkey.

NFC near field communication ISO/IEC 18092 illustration

Payment Systems

What Is ISO/IEC 18092/ECMA-340?

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.

Chart of the growth in card spending in Turkey in the first quarter of 2022

Merchant & POS

Card Payments Up 85%

According to the third Card Spending Analysis by TOBB and Visa, average monthly card spending in Turkey in the first quarter of 2022 rose 85 percent year on year, driven by e-commerce, debit cards, and contactless payments.

Overview of card scheme organizations such as Troy, Visa and Mastercard

Laws & Regulations

What Is a Card Scheme Organization?

A card scheme organization establishes a debit, credit or prepaid card system and authorizes entities to issue cards or sign merchant agreements. Troy, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, JCB and MIR are examples. This post explains how ATM and POS certification works.

Diagram explaining the PAN Sequence Number (PSN) field on a chip card

Credit Card

What Is PSN (PAN Sequence Number)?

A 2-character field written to the card's chip data that increases by 1 with each card renewal, allowing authorization to distinguish between the old and new card. This means that, theoretically, assuming no other conditions prevent it, a...

Diagram comparing the digitization and tokenization processes in mobile payments

HCE

Comparing Digitization and Tokenization

Tokenization and digitization are two important terms in mobile payments that are easily confused and often used interchangeably. What is the difference between digitization and tokenization?

ATM card reader unit

ATM

What are an ATM's Input and Output Units?

The units that let an ATM receive data are called Input Units, and the units that display data are called Output Units. Learn about the card reader, keypad, speaker, display, receipt printer, and cash dispenser.

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) concept illustration

Payment Systems

What is BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later)?

The term 'Buy Now, Pay Later' (BNPL) refers to deferring payment on a purchase to a later date. The product is delivered to the customer before any payment is made, and the customer pays afterward.