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Payment Systems
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Visa and Mastercard suspended services for sanctioned Russian banks. This post explains the impact on cardholders and merchants, and Russia's MIR and UnionPay alternatives.
Open Banking
API, used as an abbreviation for Application Programming Interface, is an interface that allows an application's functions to be accessed and used from outside or remotely, letting a server application be reached from different platforms.
Open Banking
No. Under the BRSA communiqué on service model banking, service banks can provide service model banking only to interface developers resident in Türkiye.
Laws & Regulations
No. There is an exemption for technical service providers that offer IT support for the provision of payment services. However, they have responsibilities under the Communiqué on outsourcing and information security.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
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.
ATM
The first device that can truly be called an ATM was produced by De La Rue for Barclays Bank and put into service in Enfield, London, on 27 June 1967. The ATM came to Türkiye in 1982.
Merchant & POS
The Regulation on the Non-Use of Crypto Assets in Payments, published in the Official Gazette on 16 April and effective from 30 April, looks set to seriously affect cryptocurrency developments in Turkey. Here are its key points and the full text.
Payment Systems
The Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA) had prepared a draft communiqué on the remote identity verification methods banks can use. According to the communiqué published in today's Official Gazette, the practice enters into force on May 1.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
Under Law No. 6493, payment institutions and e-money institutions may operate only with BRSA permission. This post explains the BRSA circular on the format of the independent audit report required with operating permit applications under Article 8 of the Regulation, and where to find it.
Laws & Regulations
This communiqué sets the procedures and principles for managing the information systems payment and electronic money institutions use in their activities, and for their audit by authorized independent audit firms.
Laws & Regulations
It is the regulation that sets out the procedures and principles for banks procuring support services, that is, outsourcing. Some services such as catering, legal counsel and advertising are outside its scope.
Payment Systems
BKM Payment Gateway is the general name for platforms that let government institutions accept card payments through BKM as intermediary. For the first time, SGK and e-Government title deed payments can be made with all banking cards.