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Payment Institutions & E-Money
Used as an abbreviation for Application Programming Interface, an API is an interface that allows an application's functions to be accessed and used from outside or remotely, letting an application on a server be reached from different platforms.
ATM
ATMs are important transaction points that let customers handle financial transactions without visiting a bank branch. 24/7 availability matters for customer satisfaction, so banks take steps to reduce both operational and cash costs.
Credit Card
With its announcement dated 09.06.2022, the BRSA changed how the credit card minimum payment is calculated: 20 percent of the period debt below a 25,000 lira limit and 40 percent above it. This post covers what banks should do and the likely market impact.
Payment Systems
A Payment Initiation Service Provider (PISP) can initiate a payment on a customer's behalf, withdrawing funds directly from their account with consent. Norway's Vipps is the most widely used PISP, and more providers are expected as PSD2 expands across Europe.
Closed-Loop Payments
Why does a coffee chain build its own loyalty program, and why does a payment app keep adding services? This post looks at how loyalty, data, and new services drive the growth of closed-loop payment systems, and at the financial layers behind that growth.
Payment Systems
Although many important terms are used in payment systems, the expressions below are its cornerstones — the ABCs of payment systems, so to speak. Issuer: the credit card company, usually a bank, that issues the card and tracks debt, credit, bonus points, and other services for the customer.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
The term 'Third Party Provider' refers to an authorized online service provider introduced under Open Banking. These are systems outside a customer's relationship with their bank that mediate the transaction. So how many types of third party provider are there? Two.
Payment System Institutions
These are credit institutions providing financing to individuals and companies for purchasing goods and services. Financing companies specialize mainly in vehicle loans, offering fast and flexible point-of-sale solutions distinct from banks.
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 Systems
The communiqué on the information systems of payment and electronic money institutions and the data sharing services of payment service providers was published in Official Gazette No. 31676 on 01.12.2021 and entered into force.
ATM
Everyone has probably felt the fear of money getting stuck in an ATM while making a deposit. What causes this to happen? It is not a very common occurrence, but it can happen if you do not pay attention to a few important points.
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.