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Credit Card
The BRSA raised the card limit threshold used to set the minimum payment rate from TRY 50,000 to TRY 100,000. This post explains what changed, why now, the short-term relief, the risk of carried-over balances, and which data to watch.
Payment Systems
The Hidden Side of the Payments World. The words a person working in the payment systems industry hears most over a career are probably Visa, Mastercard, POS, debit card, virtual POS, acquiring and card issuing. Frankly, my own career did not unfold very differently from that journey...
Payment System Institutions
One of the most important transformations in banking over the last few years has undoubtedly been remote customer onboarding. Individuals can now become bank customers within minutes without visiting a branch. Digital identity checks and contracts largely solved a long-standing problem...
Payment Systems
An official BRSA letter to banks announced an update to the PIN-free contactless payment limit. From January 15, 2026, contactless payments of up to 2,500 TL can be made without entering a PIN, up from the current 1,500 TL.
Payment Systems
With its announcement of 30/11/2023, the Revenue Administration published a draft Tax Procedure Law General Communiqué to complete the replacement of old-generation payment recorder devices (EN OKC) with new-generation ones (YN OKC), reduce cash use and increase card payment options.
Payment Systems
According to the Banks Association of Turkey, collusive transactions that misuse POS devices, debit cards, or credit cards for purposes other than their intended use are called fictitious transactions - in short, transactions used outside their intended purpose.
Open Banking
First, it is useful to briefly recall the concepts of Banking as a Service and Open Banking. Banking as a Service (BaaS) lets interface developers connect directly to service banks' systems via APIs and open banking services to run banking transactions for customers...
Payment Systems
ISO 18245 is an ISO standard on the management of Merchant Category Codes (MCC) in retail financial services. ISO 18245: 2003 defines the code values used to classify merchants by the type of business, trade or service they provide.
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.
Payment System Institutions
The European Payments Initiative (EPI), formerly known as PEPSI, is an ECB-backed payment integration initiative aiming to build a pan-European payment system and interbank network to rival Mastercard and Visa. Its founding members include BBVA, BNP Paribas, CaixaBank, Commerzbank and others.
E-commerce
Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) is a business model in which consumers trade with each other, usually online. This post explains how C2C works, gives examples from Turkiye, and describes the types of C2C businesses.
Payment Systems
Fintech, short for financial technologies, is a term for companies that bring together finance and technology to provide easy and fast financial services, growing rapidly worldwide.