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BKM API BIN list update illustration

Payment System Institutions

What Is the BKM API?

Thanks to the API developed by BKM, BKM Express member merchants can automatically update the BIN lists of cards issued by all banks in Türkiye and offer installments and reward points more efficiently.

ATM machine used for banking transactions in Turkey

ATM

ATM Companies Operating in Turkey

ATMs are devices that let customers carry out many banking transactions without visiting a branch. Keeping these devices technologically up to date and maintaining a high level of security are among the most important issues. Below are the companies that provide ATM software and support in Turkey.

Illustration of a money transfer being sent from one payment card to another

Credit Card

What Is a Card-to-Card Money Transfer?

Card-to-Card Money Transfer (CCMT) lets customers send money 24/7 from a credit, debit, or prepaid card to another card via ATM, internet banking, call center, or mobile app.

Illustration of virtual POS and online payment companies

Payment Institutions & E-Money

How can I get the Active Payment Institution list?

With digitalization, many products are becoming digital, and company types and services offered to customers are diversifying. Payment institutions have been part of our lives since 2015.

List of active electronic money institutions in Türkiye

Payment Institutions & E-Money

How Can I Get the List of Active Electronic Money Institutions?

With digitalization, many products are going digital and the types of companies and services are diversifying. Electronic money institutions have been part of our lives since 2015. Here is the list of active ones.

Brick and mortar bank branch illustration

Payment Systems

What Is a Brick and Mortar Bank?

“Brick and mortar” refers to a business's physical presence in a building. In banking, it describes the traditional branch-based model of face-to-face contact between bank and customer.

Google Card, the physical payment card Google is reportedly preparing to rival Apple Card

Credit Card

Meet the Google Card!

After Apple Card, announced last March to great fanfare, Huawei said it would issue a card too. Google has now joined the race among tech companies by announcing a new card of its own.

New BIN card product launch process

Credit Card

What Happens When a Product Is Launched Under a New BIN?

When banks launch a new card product, they can do it under an existing BIN or a new one. A new BIN requires much more work: BKM announces it, every bank defines it and every POS has to download it.

Diagram illustrating a bank's OnUs transaction flow and the process of opening ATMs to other banks' cards

ATM

What needs to be done to open ATMs to the use of all bank cards?

Suppose you are a newly established bank, wanting to offer customers all your products and services. Of course, this is not easy. First, the Bank's OnUs transaction processing step must run successfully before other banks' cards can be accepted at the ATMs.

Logos of various international payment card schemes

Credit Card

What Are National and International Payment Schemes?

In the world of payment systems, just as credit cards are an indispensable product, a payment scheme is indispensable for credit cards. When a credit card product is launched, the scheme it will be issued under is decided first.

Ödeme İste request to pay on FAST illustration

Payment Systems

What Is “Ödeme İste” (Request to Pay)?

The Ödeme İste (Request to Pay) System is a value-added service aiming to improve the customer experience in FAST, Türkiye's instant and continuous funds transfer system.