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PIN pad screen on a payment terminal for entering a card PIN

Credit Card

What Happens If I Enter the Wrong PIN on Card Transactions?

Nearly all transactions where credit and debit cards are used physically require a PIN. The PIN represents the cardholder's identity. Here is what happens if a customer enters the wrong PIN too many times and how the card is restored.

MasterCard Identity Check logo and authentication illustration

Security

What is MasterCard Identity Check?

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…

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Merchant & POS

What Is UnionPay?

UnionPay International (UPI) is a China UnionPay subsidiary founded in November 2012. Together with more than 1,000 institutions worldwide, UPI provides international card acceptance in 160 countries and card issuance in more than 40 countries and regions.

Illustration of a contactless payment card being tapped on a POS terminal

Contactless

What is Magnetic Stripe Data (MSD)?

As end users, we have come to love contactless payments, which are becoming a bigger part of daily life. So what features let contactless cards make payments without touching the POS terminal? There are two classes: MSD cards and Contactless EMV cards.

Illustration explaining how NFC technology enables contactless payments

HCE

What Is NFC?

NFC, known as Near Field Communication, is a technology that transfers data wirelessly between devices within 10 cm. It is used for data transfer, device pairing, and as the basis of contactless payments.

Credit card with a built-in fingerprint sensor for biometric cardholder verification

Credit Card

Who Wouldn't Want a Credit Card with a Biometric Reader?

Card security is critical in card payment systems. Chip&Pin curbed much fraud, but gaps remain. Cornercard, Gemalto and Visa launched Switzerland's first credit card with a built-in fingerprint reader. Here is how it works.

Contactless card payment at a POS terminal

Credit Card

Contactless Payment Limit Is Being Raised

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.

Transactions available at an ATM

ATM

Transactions You Can Make at an ATM

Moving branch transactions to channels such as ATMs, internet banking and mobile banking lowers banking costs, so almost every transaction can now be done through them. Here is what ATMs offer.