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Payment Systems
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a concept first used by Kevin Ashton in a 1991 presentation. It refers to many electrical devices, such as watches, fridges and washing machines, communicating with each other.
Laws & Regulations
A prepaid card used only in brand X's stores is considered to be used “only within a limited network of service providers”, and therefore outside the scope of the Law under Article 18(5). Each business model must still be assessed separately.
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.
Merchant & POS
In the first post I explained what closed-loop payment systems are and how they differ from open-loop ones. Many of the replies I received boiled down to one question: how do these systems actually work behind the scenes once a QR code is scanned?
Payment Systems
Open banking opens financial data, under the regulations and with the customer's explicit consent, to third-party service providers through standard APIs. The CBRT has published a guide on payment initiation and account information services, covering licensing and technical certification.
E-commerce
Dropshipping is an e-commerce model in which products are sold to customers directly from a supplier, without holding stock. Instead of stocking goods, the seller buys from a third-party provider on demand and has it shipped straight to the customer.
Payment Systems
Official Gazette No. 32332 dated 07.10.2023 published the amending Regulation and Communiqué covering digital wallets, e-money, share transfers, cloud outsourcing, remote identity verification and card system choice.
Payment Systems
B2B and B2C are collaboration models used in e-commerce transactions. This post explains what each term means and compares them in terms of customer, purchasing, sales and marketing.
Open Banking
Embedded Finance means integrating financial products and services into non-financial platforms, experiences or business processes. In other words, services offered by financial institutions become part of the product or service flows of non-financial organizations.
Payment Systems
This guide, prepared in line with the regulation and its annex on TR QR Code principles and rules, gives sample mobile payment flows and defines the TR QR Code data organization for merchant-presented and consumer-presented models.
Laws & Regulations
The Regulation on Generating and Using TR QR Code in Payment Services and its attached TR QR Code Principles and Rules document were published in the Official Gazette No. 31220 dated August 21, 2020, to ensure interoperability in QR code payments.
Laws & Regulations
This guide, aligned with the TR QR Code regulation and its annex, describes the workflows for FAST payments using merchant-presented and person-to-person QR codes and defines the related TR QR Code data organization.