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Laws & Regulations
BSMV stands for Banking and Insurance Transaction Tax, levied on banking and insurance transactions. This post explains how it applies to payment institutions and e-money institutions under Expense Taxes General Communiqué No. 91, with an example.
Credit Card
Credit cards make shopping easier, but spending without thinking about when the bill is due can cause payment problems. Choosing a statement date that matches your payday helps.
Payment Systems
When we hear “payment systems”, card transactions at POS terminals or ATMs usually come to mind. Let's look together at the payment systems recognized by the Central Bank.
Credit Card
To ease payments during post-coronavirus normalization and support domestic tourism, the BRSA raised the credit card installment limit for domestic airline, travel agency and accommodation spending from 12 to 18 months.
Merchant & POS
Banks check merchants against a termination list before issuing a POS device. Learn the main reasons, such as counterfeit card acceptance, excessive chargebacks, and fraud, that can lead a bank to terminate a merchant agreement.
Credit Card
People over 18 who have the capacity to discern, are not under legal restriction and whose creditworthiness is deemed suitable by the bank can get a credit card. Banks set different criteria for professions, students and homemakers.
Credit Card
A credit card is a card whose limit the bank sets after evaluating the customer against criteria such as income, payment history, and credit bureau score.
Merchant & POS
Not Onus is a payment systems term meaning "Not On Us": a situation where the card-issuing bank and the POS/ATM (acquiring) bank differ. Such transactions are settled through clearing between the two banks.
Credit Card
KKB was established, under banking law, to enable the exchange of all kinds of information and documents among at least five banks, and it also shares credit information about customers. The Credit Bureau of Turkey also serves deposit banks, participation banks, financial institutions, and more.
Credit Card
Yes. Your credit card limit can be reduced without your permission and approval. Banks may set a lower limit as a result of updates based on a person's economic and social situation, credit score and similar information.
Credit Card
Due to how payment systems work, authorization is obtained for a transaction first. For a Not Onus transaction (different card and POS banks), the system waits for it to arrive via the clearing incoming file. If it does not arrive within about a week, the transaction expires.