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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.
Laws & Regulations
It is data published by the BRSA, compiled from information periodically collected through the BRSA Data Transfer System (BVTS) from banks and other institutions under its supervision.
Payment Systems
The Interbank Card Center (BKM) shared its data for the first 6 months of 2021: card payments totaled TRY 709 billion, online card payments reached TRY 188 billion, and the number of contactless payments tripled year on year.
ATM
The units that let an ATM receive data are called Input Units, and the units that display data are called Output Units. Learn about the card reader, keypad, speaker, display, receipt printer, and cash dispenser.
Credit Card
A 2-character field written to the card's chip data that increases by 1 with each card renewal, allowing authorization to distinguish between the old and new card. This means that, theoretically, assuming no other conditions prevent it, a...
Online & Authorization
These are codes that communicate the issuer's conditions for approving a transaction online (IAC-Online), for declining it (IAC-Denial), or for declining it when the terminal cannot go online (IAC-Default).
Security
A Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) is approved by the PCI Security Standards Council to audit merchants for PCI DSS compliance. The lists of QSA and ASV companies are published on the Council's website.
Credit Card
The Application Interchange Profile indicates the application functions supported by the card. The AIP values and their descriptions are given below. Where is the AIP found? The AIP is a 2-byte piece of data stored on the card, carried under EMV tag 82.
E-commerce
BKM Express has pioneered card storage and digital wallets in Turkey. After the Competition Authority's termination decision, a Board decision revoked it, so BKM Express will continue. Here is the latest situation.
EMV
DFN is the abbreviation for Dedicated File Name. It defines the name of the DF (Dedicated File) as described in ISO/IEC 7816-4. It is the data found in Tag 84, 5 to 16 characters in length.
HSM & Security
Secure Element Issuer is the stakeholder that provides, maintains, and updates the secure element in cases where mobile payment application and card data are stored in the secure element inside a mobile phone.
Merchant & POS
The most important part of issuer data definitions is that they are built around your own bank's or institution's developments and application flows. Missing BINs can break installments, rewards and routing on POS devices.