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Credit Card
Track 1 is a special data set encoded on a card's magnetic stripe that contains the card information required for authorization when the card is used physically. It includes the cardholder name, card number, and expiration date.
Credit Card
The service code is information printed on a card's Track 1 and Track 2 data, covering card type, PIN usage, and domestic/international usage status. It is kept at the product level in bank systems.
HSM & Security
ZPK, also known as the PIN Protection Key, is a data encryption key that is distributed automatically and used to encrypt PINs. It is also referred to as the 'Working Key'. This key allows PIN information to be carried securely across the network.
Credit Card
The BRSA has issued a new decision on contactless cards, instructing banks to require a PIN on the first contactless transaction to prevent cards from being used without the customer's knowledge.
Security
SCRW (Smart Card Reader Writer) can be translated as Smart Card Reader/Writer. Smart chip card readers are sophisticated devices with built-in intelligence, usable in PCs, laptops, servers, smartphones, and set-top boxes.
Payment Systems
No, they cannot use your entire card limit. In addition to special controls for contactless cards, contactless-enabled cards have limited payment amounts.
Credit Card
Current information: this post describes the limit that applied at the time of publication. According to a BRSA letter to banks, the PIN-free contactless transaction limit, raised to 750 TL in July 2022, will become 1500 TL from 1 July 2024.
Credit 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.
Security
A CP transaction refers to a card transaction in which the card and cardholder are physically present at the location. Card Present transactions occur when the card's magnetic stripe or chip data is read by a POS terminal or ATM, or via contactless.
Online & Authorization
Online transactions grow every day in both number and volume, and so does the risk of fraud. Here are practical steps cardholders can take to shop online more safely.
Credit Card
If your card has been stolen: call your card's bank and close it with a Stolen status, check for transactions you don't recognize and dispute them, and update any automatic payment instructions tied to the old card.
Payment Systems
The number of consecutive transactions you can make with your card in a day is set by the bank or institution that issued it. For details, contact the customer service of the bank or institution that issued your contactless card.