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Credit Card
CVV is a very critical 3-digit value used during a card's authorization process. The CVV value is encoded in the card's magnetic stripe data (Track 1 and Track 2). Is it generated by an algorithm or chosen at random?
Credit Card
The Card Security Code is a 3-digit numeric value used for cardholder verification and to reduce fraud risk. It is generated during card production and printed either on the card or encoded into the Track 1 and Track 2 data.
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.
Merchant & POS
Winning customers is one of the most important things in business, but keeping them satisfied matters just as much. If you collect payments at regular intervals, such as monthly, these tips will help you improve the success rate of recurring collections.
Credit Card
A 2-character field written to the card's chip data that increases by 1 with each card renewal, allowing authorization to distinguish between the old and new card. This means that, theoretically, assuming no other conditions prevent it, a...
HSM & Security
Non-face-to-face transactions in which the cardholder authorizes the merchant to store card data, and the merchant uses that stored data to carry out the transaction, are called Credential-on-File (CoF) transactions.
Credit Card
Issuer Script Results is the field that shows the results of the Issuer Script commands sent to the card. This post explains its byte and bit values, what an issuer script is, why the results matter, and what happens when a command fails.
Merchant & POS
Recurring billing is the automatic collection of payments at set intervals and amounts by storing the customer's card details on a secure, PCI DSS-certified infrastructure.
Fraud
Fraud management is used to detect possible fraud on customer accounts and provides additional security for transactions when necessary, making it one of the top priorities for banks.
Online & Authorization
Many fields are sent in the authorization message of a card transaction, one of the most important being the authorization code. On its own it is not enough; together with the STAN and transaction date, the transaction can be found directly.
Credit Card
The following steps should be followed when launching a new product: decide on the brand, request a new BIN from the scheme (Mastercard, Visa, Troy), define the BIN in the bank's system, generate keys in the HSM, and roll it out after certification.
Merchant & POS
When a chip can't be read due to a chip fault or the card being inserted incorrectly, the transaction is completed by swiping the magnetic stripe on the right side of the POS. Can chipless cards do fallback?