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Merchant & POS
After a merchant applies to a bank and the required checks on the company are completed, a POS is connected to the customer. Settlement can be commission-based, held for a period, or both, depending on the agreement.
Payment Systems
If users start describing their needs instead of searching for products, one of the internet economy's most fundamental habits could change.
Closed-Loop Payments
In the final post of the closed-loop payments series, the common question behind cards, QR payments, and prepaid balances comes into focus: who manages the customer relationship, and whose ecosystem does the customer stay in?
Closed-Loop Payments
Is Starbucks really selling coffee, or building an ecosystem? Prepaid balances, a loyalty program and customer data turn a coffee chain's payments into a closed-loop economy, a very different model from Istanbulkart.
EMV
The Visa EAS Server (Extended Access Service) is a server used in Visa’s authentication infrastructure. It was developed to run the cardholder authentication process securely between banks and the Visa network, particularly within Visa Secure (3-D Secure 2.x).
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.
Open Banking
Embedded Finance means integrating financial products and services into non-financial platforms, experiences or business processes. In other words, services offered by financial institutions become part of the product or service flows of non-financial organizations.
Payment Systems
Every payment transaction completes in seconds, yet dozens of controls run behind the scenes. This post covers the precautions for authorization and clearing, the critical role of reversals, and the financial loss scenarios most often seen in the field.
Credit Card
Yes. A certificate must be generated for every new BIN and loaded onto the card chip, establishing secure communication between the chip and the terminal. This is especially critical for verification in offline transactions.
Payment Systems
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.
Payment Systems
With the CBRT's regulation on payment services, electronic money issuance and payment service providers, the minimum equity amounts for bill payment, payment and electronic money institutions were raised.
Payment Systems
As FAST usage keeps growing, new CBRT regulations are accelerating it further. Payment and e-money institutions will join FAST directly in 2023, and FAST Merchant Payments using the TR-QR Code will go live in the first quarter of 2023.