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Payment Institutions & E-Money
5 August 2021 was a very important day for Turkish payment systems. The CBRT's amendment to the Communiqué on the International Bank Account Number (IBAN) allows payment institutions and e-money institutions to create IBANs as well. This is...
Security
Payment security is very important in payment systems. To increase security, transactions require additional information such as PINs and passwords. Remembering which information to use, and keeping it in mind without forgetting…
Online & Authorization
In payment systems, the term transaction refers to the operations performed. Each transaction has its own distinct characteristics. For example, a Sale made from a POS differs from a Sale Cancellation or a Cash Withdrawal made from an ATM.
FAST
In the FAST system, an end-to-end money transfer between participants is targeted to complete in 2–3 seconds on average. Transactions that are not completed within 25 seconds are automatically cancelled.
Closed-Loop Payments
In the final post of the closed-loop payments series, the common question behind cards, QR payments, and prepaid balances comes into focus: who manages the customer relationship, and whose ecosystem does the customer stay in?
Agentic Commerce
Can AI Decide on Our Behalf? Letting an AI agent handle research can make life much easier. The real question is where that should stop, and how much decision-making authority we are ready to hand over.
FAST
With the Easy Address system, your email address has become more important. If an email address linked as an Easy Address is closed, the bank should be notified, the outdated definition deleted and current details registered again.
FAST
With the Easy Address system, your mobile phone number has become more important. If you cancel your number, notify your bank as soon as possible, delete the outdated definitions and register your current information again.
HSM & Security
In the world of payment systems, keys and their uses are important for transferring information from one place to another, storing information, and securing authorization and scripting steps. Key types are divided into six categories based on their purpose.
Merchant & POS
Mobile phones are entering our lives more every day. One study found people forget their wallets more often than their phones. This post explains how to buy fuel with TOTAL Mobile Payment and BKM Express without getting out of the car.
Credit Card
Payment systems are changing fast, and new players are emerging. The Advantage Card, the first installment credit card in Turkey and Europe, did not come from a bank, which holds lessons for today's fintech entrepreneurs.
Debit Card
A stored value card is a widely used card type today. Instead of being held in a financial system, the monetary balance is stored directly on the card, which has a special magnetic stripe recording important financial data such as the balance.