Credit Card
What Is SAFE (System to Avoid Fraud Effectively)?
SAFE, short for System to Avoid Fraud Effectively, refers to fraud records created by issuing banks. Fraud records sent in the Mastercard clearing format fall under the SAFE category.
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Chargeback
What is No Show?
A no-show fee is the one-night/one-day charge collected by merchants for hotel reservations and car rental bookings that were made but not used, and not canceled when they should have been. It means an unused and uncanceled reservation.
Merchant & POS
What Is an Offline Transaction?
When a chip card transaction is made at a POS, it may be approved by the card and the POS alone, without reaching any system (issuer or acquirer). When do the issuer and acquirer find out about it?
Clearing
What Are the Field Types and Field Formats Used in the YTH (Domestic Clearing and Settlement) System?
The YTH (Domestic Clearing and Settlement) System handles the clearing and settlement between two banks when a transaction is made at another bank's POS or ATM with a card from a different bank. Participants submit records to the YTH system, and...
Payment Systems
What Is an Appeal? What Does It Mean in Payment Systems?
In payment systems, an “appeal” is the process of objecting to the outcome of a transaction dispute. It is usually discussed alongside chargebacks, but it plays a critical role in interbank dispute resolution, when a party asks the card scheme to re-evaluate a concluded decision.
Credit Card
Can a Card Have CVV Printed on Both Sides?
Yes. American Express cards have a 4-digit CVV on the front and a 3-digit CVV on the back, like other cards. Here's how payment forms should handle both formats and why logging the security code is never allowed.
Payment Systems
What Is TCR (Transaction Record Component)?
TCR stands for Transaction Record Component, the packets that carry transaction information in a clearing system. Transaction types in a clearing file are distinguished by transaction code and usage code values, and this data is sent inside TCR packets.
Payment Systems
Draft Amendment to the Regulation on Banks' Remote Identification and Contract Relationship Published
The BRSA has published a draft amendment to the regulation on remote identification methods used by banks and electronic contract relationships. It extends remote onboarding to legal entities, including MERSIS-based verification of representatives.
Merchant & POS
What Is MPV (Central POS Database)?
MPV stands for Merkezi POS Veritabanı (Central POS Database), BKM's shared database of all POS terminals operated by its card-accepting members, used for support, statistics, fraud analysis and the Common POS Management System.
Merchant & POS
If the Card-Issuing Bank and Merchant Bank Are the Same in a Transaction, Does It Go Through Clearing?
For a transaction to go through clearing, the card-issuing bank and the merchant bank must be different. If they are the same, the transaction is not subject to clearing and is processed directly by the bank.
EMV
What is an Application Identifier (AID)?
The AID tells the terminal which applications are present on a chip during a POS or ATM transaction. What does the AID do? It lets the terminal determine whether it supports an application on the chip. In Tag 9F06, it is 5-16 digits long.
Online & Authorization
What is TLV (Tag-Length-Value)?
TLV is a data storage method used to speed up the parsing of data. For example, reading data from a card's chip at a POS and carrying it through authorization uses the TLV structure.