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Credit Card
Yes. A certificate must be generated for every new BIN and loaded onto the card chip, establishing secure communication between the chip and the terminal. This is especially critical for verification in offline transactions.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
On 7 October 2023, the CBRT amended the Communiqué on Information Systems of Payment and E-Money Institutions and Data Sharing Services of Payment Service Providers, first published on 1 December 2021. Links to the new text, a comparison table and a detailed summary of changes follow.
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
A Lost POS is a situation in which a POS device provided to a merchant by a bank or institution cannot be retrieved for any reason. Since POS devices are recorded as fixed assets, tracking them closely is essential.
Security
Fraud means obtaining unjust gain by carrying out a transaction at a merchant or ATM using someone else's credit card or debit card, causing a loss to the real cardholder, the merchant, or the bank. So what fraud codes do Visa and Mastercard use?
Payment Systems
TCR stands for Transaction Record Component, the packets that carry transaction information in a clearing system. Transaction types in a clearing file are distinguished by transaction code and usage code values, and this data is sent inside TCR packets.
Payment Systems
Takasbank (Istanbul Settlement and Custody Bank) exists to increase the competitiveness of Turkey's markets by providing clearing and custody services, financial services, and other economic activities under the relevant legislation.
Security
A Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) is a person approved by the PCI Security Standards Council to audit merchants for compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.
E-commerce
With the growth of the internet and its global reach, companies have increasingly begun to deliver their products to more people in foreign markets through online channels. This gives sellers an advantage beyond the domestic market and gives consumers wider access to products.
Laws & Regulations
Payment and electronic money institutions must set up internal control and risk management units, each with at least one dedicated employee. The same person cannot carry out both functions.
Open Banking
The European Banking Authority (EBA) is an EU regulatory body headquartered in Paris. It runs stress tests on European banks to increase transparency and identify weaknesses in their capital structures. It was established on 1 January 2011.
Merchant & POS
Current information: this article describes the limit in force at the time of publication. To reduce the risk of the coronavirus (Covid-19) spreading, the contactless transaction limit on credit and debit cards was raised to 250 lira.