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Credit Card
A look at the Union Bank RuPay combo card, an unusual design with two chips, two card numbers, two CVV2 values, two magnetic stripes, and two payment schemes combining credit and debit card functions.
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?
E-commerce
Online shopping is a form of e-commerce in which consumers complete purchases over the internet using a credit card/debit card, bank transfer, or cash on delivery.
Payment Systems
“Brick and mortar” refers to a business's physical presence in a building. In banking, it describes the traditional branch-based model of face-to-face contact between bank and customer.
Merchant & POS
In the first post I explained what closed-loop payment systems are and how they differ from open-loop ones. Many of the replies I received boiled down to one question: how do these systems actually work behind the scenes once a QR code is scanned?
Merchant & POS
A Payment Facilitator (PF) is a licensed payment institution that lets merchants accept card payments without applying to banks directly. Learn how it works.
Online & Authorization
These are codes that communicate the issuer's conditions for approving a transaction online (IAC-Online), for declining it (IAC-Denial), or for declining it when the terminal cannot go online (IAC-Default).
Merchant & POS
The BRSA announced it would allow 4 credit card installments for crafted gold jewelry, but not for coins or bullion. Since a jeweler sells both, how will the rule actually be enforced?
Payment Systems
A Payment Initiation Service Provider (PISP) can initiate a payment on a customer's behalf, withdrawing funds directly from their account with consent. Norway's Vipps is the most widely used PISP, and more providers are expected as PSD2 expands across Europe.
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.
Credit Card
Most of us remember the impact the first iPhone, introduced by Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007 and revolutionary for its time, had on our lives. In a similar way, a product that will completely change how we use and view credit cards...
Open Banking
API, used as an abbreviation for Application Programming Interface, is an interface that allows an application's functions to be accessed and used from outside or remotely, letting a server application be reached from different platforms.