Security
What Is a Secure Card Reader for PIN (SCRP)?
A Secure Card Reader for PIN (SCRP) is a multi-function card reader that turns any iOS, Android or Windows device into a payment terminal able to accept chip and contactless payments with PIN.
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Online & Authorization
What is EMV?
EMV stands for Europay, Mastercard and Visa. In 1994 these companies formed a working group to set chip-card standards, leading to the EMV standards used worldwide today.
EMV
What Is an EMV Issuer Script?
An EMV Issuer Script is a system that lets the issuer (the institution that issues the card) update and change the parameters and values on the card chip while it remains in use, reducing fraud over the card's lifetime.
Merchant & POS
Don't Dismiss the POS Receipt
In daily credit card purchases, the POS produces two receipts: the Customer Copy and the Merchant Copy. The cardholder gets the customer copy; the merchant keeps its own copy by law.
Chargeback
What Are the Chargeback Reason Codes by Payment Scheme?
A chargeback is the process of requesting that an amount paid by credit card be refunded, either because the goods or services paid for were not received, or because a transaction is identified as one the cardholder did not carry out.
Credit Card
Who Wouldn't Want a Credit Card with a Biometric Reader?
Card security is critical in card payment systems. Chip&Pin curbed much fraud, but gaps remain. Cornercard, Gemalto and Visa launched Switzerland's first credit card with a built-in fingerprint reader. Here is how it works.
Merchant & POS
What Is an Imprinter?
An imprinter is the name given to devices that transfer all the information embossed on a credit card onto a paper sales receipt. Before POS terminals, it was commonly used by merchants for authorization transactions.
Credit Card
What Is a CNP (Card Not Present) Transaction?
CNP refers to a transaction made through a website or a company's own app payment page, where the card is not read by any device and its details are entered manually. It is short for Card Not Present.
Merchant & POS
What Is UnionPay?
UnionPay International (UPI) is a China UnionPay subsidiary founded in November 2012. Together with more than 1,000 institutions worldwide, UPI provides international card acceptance in 160 countries and card issuance in more than 40 countries and regions.
Merchant & POS
Offline PIN Counter = 0 Scenario: Who Is Liable for Transactions Approved Without a PIN?
In EMV-based debit card transactions, PIN verification is decisive for both security and liability. What happens when a card that only supports online PIN is sent to the issuer without a PIN, and the issuer approves it? Who owns the risk?
Credit Card
What is a biometric credit card?
Technology continues to make our lives easier and more secure. Old ID cards were just laminated paper; new ones became personalized and secure with biometric photos added alongside chip data.
ATM
Today Is the Anniversary of the ATM Entering Our Lives!
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.