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Credit Card

What should you know before buying a prepaid card?

A prepaid card is a customized chip or chipless card that is not linked to a bank account and has no credit limit like a credit card. You can only spend up to the amount loaded onto the card.

Screenshot illustrating a prepaid card and its features

Credit Card

What is a prepaid card?

A prepaid card is a customized card, with or without a chip, not linked to a bank account and without a credit limit like credit cards, letting you spend only the amount loaded onto it.

Diagram illustrating the NextGenPSD2 framework for open banking APIs

Open Banking

What Is NextGenPSD2?

NextGenPSD2 is the set of API standards launched by the Berlin Group in 2017, now involving more than 1,700 banks from 20 countries. This post explains what the framework offers to banks, fintechs and third-party providers under PSD2.

Illustration representing an AI agent making a payment

Agentic Commerce

Agentic Commerce Series – Part 4

Are We Ready to Give an AI Agent the Authority to Make Payments? Having long looked at complaint and dispute processes in payment systems, I think granting an agent payment authority is far different from research or product selection.

Prepaid debit card not linked to a bank account

Debit Card

What Is a Prepaid Debit Card?

A prepaid card is a customized card that is not linked to a bank account and has no credit limit like a credit card - you can spend only up to the amount loaded onto it. Prepaid cards function just like a bank card or credit card.

Diagram explaining the Easy Address service used with the FAST instant payment system

FAST

What Is Easy Address (Kolay Adres)?

The Instant and Continuous Transfer of Funds (FAST) System lets customers send payment instructions 24/7 through bank systems, independent of EFT. This article explains what Easy Address is, how to register one and how transfers work.

Photo illustrating the use of a prepaid card

Credit Card

Is a Prepaid Card a Credit Card or a Debit Card?

A prepaid card may look like a debit card since it has no predetermined limit and purchases are limited to the amount loaded by the cardholder, but in terms of use and operating logic it differs significantly from both credit and debit cards.

Electronic money definition illustration

Payment Institutions & E-Money

What Is Electronic Money?

In general, electronic money is monetary value stored on a protected technological device. Turkish law defines it under Law No. 6493 as electronically stored value issued against funds and accepted by third parties as a means of payment.

Contactless payment being made with a chip debit card at a POS terminal

Debit Card

Can a debit card (ATM card) be used for contactless transactions?

A contactless transaction is a fast, secure payment made between a chip card and a POS device without direct contact, without the card's chip or magnetic data being read through the card reader. Can this be done with a debit card (ATM card)?

Illustration of a person-to-person (P2P) mobile payment transfer

Credit Card

What is Person-to-Person Payment (P2P)?

Person-to-person payments (P2P) is an online technology that lets users transfer money from their bank or credit card accounts to another person's account over the internet or a mobile phone. Examples of such apps include PayPal, Venmo, and Cash App.

Diagram showing how offline transactions are relayed from the POS to the card bank

Merchant & POS

How Do Offline Transactions Reach the Card and POS Bank?

In chip transactions made with a credit card via POS, the transaction amount is approved by the card and POS based on parameters on the card and POS, without going to the card bank or POS bank. These are called offline transactions.