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Credit Card
As credit cards become more and more a part of our lives, we now make almost all our purchases without cash. We inserted our card into the merchant's POS. We made a 100 TRY sale transaction. We received a receipt confirming it was successful.
Payment Systems
Although many important terms are used in payment systems, the expressions below are its cornerstones — the ABCs of payment systems, so to speak. Issuer: the credit card company, usually a bank, that issues the card and tracks debt, credit, bonus points, and other services for the customer.
Credit Card
TROY, announced by the Interbank Card Center (BKM) in September 2015, is a card scheme like VISA, MasterCard, or AMEX. It takes its name from the initials of its Turkish slogan meaning 'Turkey's Payment Method'.
Credit Card
From the outside, Visa contactless looks simple, but once the limit is exceeded and PIN comes into play it gets deeper. Why do response codes 65 and 70 behave so differently on POS devices in different countries, such as the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia?
Merchant & POS
Partial authorization lets an issuer approve part of the requested amount when the card lacks the full balance, with the rest paid another way. This post covers the technical, receipt, clearing, reconciliation, merchant and certification requirements for acquirers.
Payment Systems
Open banking means sharing financial data with third parties securely, and Payment Services Data Sharing Services (OHVPS) are the two core payment services under it. This post explains both and where to find the participant list on the BKM website.
Merchant & POS
BKM has changed the domestic transaction flows for contactless transactions above and below the CVM limit. For above-limit transactions, the issuer can now ask the cardholder to re-enter the PIN instead of terminating the transaction after an incorrect PIN (DE39 = 55).
Payment Systems
Official Gazette No. 32332 dated 07.10.2023 published the amending Regulation and Communiqué covering digital wallets, e-money, share transfers, cloud outsourcing, remote identity verification and card system choice.
Payment Systems
According to BKM's TR QR Code Technical Principles and Rules Guide for card payments, QR code payment structures apply to EFTPOS, shared EFTPOS, ÖKC, ATMs, payment provider apps, static QR codes and virtual POS.
Payment Systems
Payment systems need laws and regulations to be managed according to set standards. BKM, a reference point for payment systems in Türkiye, lists the relevant laws and regulations on its website.
Payment Systems
As part of the first-phase work of the Digital Turkish Lira Project led by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT), the first payments on the Digital Turkish Lira Network were successfully carried out. The CBRT will continue its closed-loop pilot tests in the first quarter of 2023.
Laws & Regulations
The CBRT announced that it has launched open banking services in payments, a component of the digital economy roadmap of its liraization strategy, through BKM's Open Banking Gateway (GEÇİT).