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In online shopping, converting product browsing into a completed sale after a customer visits your site is just as critical. The amount of purchases abandoned due to friction in the online buying process often exceeds successful sales.
Credit Card
The BRSA has restricted the number of installments on credit card transactions depending on the sector, aiming to keep household spending from exceeding income. This post covers the new installment limits for furniture, white goods, TVs, gold, vehicle loans and the higher risk weights.
Credit Card
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.
Credit Card
A business credit card is a credit card offered by banks to businesses so they can make company expenditures and track and manage those expenses.
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?
Security
When you visit a website, the protocol it supports appears at the left of the web address. Secure data transfers likewise use protocols that support http or https. Let's first take a brief look at what HTTP and HTTPS are.
Security
Vishing is a method of deceiving the victim using voice. It replaces the "p" in phishing with the first letter of "voice," meaning "voice deception." It is reinforced by technology in social engineering cases to extract information more easily.
Payment Systems
The BRSA has published a draft regulation amending the Regulation on Debit Cards and Credit Cards. It introduces the card scheme definition, a customer right to choose the card scheme, and an obligation for acquirers to define licensed schemes on merchant POS devices.
ATM
Did you know that when a transaction is attempted with another bank's card at an ATM, the PIN check happens not when the card is inserted, but when the transaction is sent for authorization? (Deposits are the exception.)
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.
HSM & Security
In the past, banking meant going to a branch. Today, most transactions run through channels such as the Internet Branch, ATM and Mobile Branch, so improving internet banking security and regularly informing customers about it is important.
Chargeback
Compliance means adherence to card scheme rules. Outside chargebacks, it is how a bank that loses money because card payment organization rules were broken recovers that amount from the party that caused the loss.