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Credit Card
A real attempted card fraud story: a fake Facebook friend request, a promise of free bank points, and a request for card number, expiry date and CVV2. Here is what happened and how to protect yourself.
Payment Systems
No. Besides the POS and the host, permissions can also be kept in the issuer data. This lets banks, for example, allow installments only for a brand's BINs, or allow mail order for credit cards but not debit cards.
Credit Card
Ali joined a bank's “shop 4 times at merchant X and earn Y TL” campaign. Fifteen days after being told 40 TL had been loaded onto his card, the merchant told him he had no points left. Here is what went wrong.
Payment System Institutions
Thanks to the API developed by BKM, BKM Express member merchants can automatically update the BIN lists of cards issued by all banks in Türkiye and offer installments and reward points more efficiently.
Merchant & POS
The answer depends on the type of POS terminal. A physical POS (GPRS, Dial-Up, IP, or cash-register POS) requires working with a bank. A virtual POS can also be obtained from a payment institution without a separate bank agreement.
Credit Card
You may have noticed that the same transaction amount earns different reward points when paid with a credit card. Have you ever wondered why? The points a card earns are managed within the card bank's authorization system.
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?
Credit Card
When banks launch a new card product, they can do it under an existing BIN or a new one. A new BIN requires much more work: BKM announces it, every bank defines it and every POS has to download it.
Credit Card
An installment transaction splits a payment into a set number of installments reflected on the cardholder's statement, when the card and POS bank are the same. For example, a 1000 TL transaction in 5 installments reflects 200 TL per statement period, starting from the first one.
Credit Card
Credit cards and POS are two core products banks offer customers. At first glance, credit cards seem to generate no return beyond interchange fees, card fees, and late fees.
Payment System Institutions
BKM (Interbank Card Center) works through several committees: Security, Operations and Technology, Market Development, Business Development, Chargeback Rules and Arbitration, ATM Sharing, plus arbitration committees. This post outlines each one's duties.
Credit Card
Payment systems statistics are reported periodically by the Interbank Card Center (BKM), including total card count, total card turnover, and the growth trend of the card world in the period.