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Illustration of dynamic CVM limit management for contactless card payments

Payment Systems

Dynamic CVM Limit Management Approach: A New Era in Card Security

One of the most notable recent developments in card payments is that contactless limits are no longer fixed and can be managed dynamically per customer. Mastercard and Visa are taking different but complementary approaches, and ISO 8583 may need to evolve with them.

Illustration explaining the authorization process for card payments at POS, virtual POS, and ATM terminals

Merchant & POS

What is Authorization?

The term 'provizyon' comes from French and means obtaining approval for a transaction. In payment systems, authorization confirms that the card, POS, bank account, and transaction limits are sufficient to complete a payment.

Chart summarizing results of the BKM card usage survey

Credit Card

BKM Card Usage Survey

According to a survey by the Interbank Card Center measuring card usage habits in Turkey, card usage is increasing every day. Credit card preference rose from 61% in 2015 to 68% in 2017, while cash preference fell from 35% to 27%.

Illustration representing the products and services KKB offers directly to its member institutions

Credit Card

What Products and Services Does KKB Offer Directly to Members?

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.

Illustration of collecting a card payment through an SMS payment link on a mobile phone

Merchant & POS

What Are the Advantages of Collecting Payments by SMS?

In the past, collecting a payment meant physically swiping a card through a POS device. Payment methods have since diversified so much that customer satisfaction, transaction counts and volumes have all increased. Here is why SMS payment is gaining popularity.

Credit card minimum payment ratio change announced by the BRSA

Credit Card

Change Made to the Credit Card Minimum Payment Ratio

The credit card minimum payment amount lets customers who cannot pay their full debt keep using their cards. In June 2019 the BRSA set the minimum payment at 30 percent for all limits, and kept 40 percent for cards issued within the past year.

Screenshot illustrating a prepaid card and its features

Credit Card

What is a prepaid card?

A prepaid card is a customized card, with or without a chip, not linked to a bank account and without a credit limit like credit cards, letting you spend only the amount loaded onto it.

Illustration representing credit information sharing among institutions in the Credit Reference System (KRS)

Credit Card

What Is KRS (Credit Reference System)?

The Credit Reference System (KRS) is an information sharing system that, using modern methods, enables detailed information about individual credit product customers to be shared among KKB member institutions, in order to determine the risk factor…

Illustration representing an AI agent making purchasing decisions

Agentic Commerce

Agentic Commerce Series – Part 3

Can AI Decide on Our Behalf? Letting an AI agent handle research can make life much easier. The real question is where that should stop, and how much decision-making authority we are ready to hand over.