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Debit Card
A type of smart card containing a microchip and simple software, which performs contactless reading when brought close to a smart card reader. It isn't linked to a bank account and has no credit limit like credit cards. You can spend up to the amount loaded onto the card...
Online & Authorization
Online transactions grow every day in both number and volume, and so does the risk of fraud. Here are practical steps cardholders can take to shop online more safely.
Merchant & POS
Mail order is carried out by conveying credit card details to the merchant by phone or mail. A manual sale occurs when, due to a physical problem during checkout, the card details are entered into the POS device by hand instead.
HCE
There are three types of PIN strategy in HCE (Host Card Emulation): No PIN, Card PIN and Wallet PIN or customer biometric data. Each balances user experience and security differently.
Agentic Commerce
Can AI Decide on Our Behalf? Letting an AI agent handle research can make life much easier. The real question is where that should stop, and how much decision-making authority we are ready to hand over.
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?
Payment Systems
Cards are delivered to customers by courier, and at several points along that chain a card could theoretically be intercepted. To prevent misuse before delivery, banks print new and Lost/Stolen replacement cards as Temporarily Blocked, activating them only once the customer receives them.
Open Banking
Digital banking is talked about more every day, and with the BRSA's support in defining its scope, it is about to enter our lives. A 'digital bank' is a credit institution that provides banking services mainly through electronic channels rather than physical branches.
Payment Systems
Elon Musk was set to unveil Neuralink, a brain-computer interface. What is Neuralink, and how might payment systems change if payments, cards, ATMs and POS devices move from phones to a chip in the brain?
Merchant & POS
In payment systems, exchange rate information is used in two places: POS devices that support foreign currency transactions, and credit card transactions made in a foreign currency (usually abroad).
Fraud
Card skimming is the theft of card information by copying it with the help of a device. Because data inside the chip is very difficult to steal, chip cards are far more secure than magnetic-stripe cards. Turkey is very advanced in card security technology.
Credit Card
For people who have trouble paying credit card debt, who do not pay, or who pay late, the concepts of legal collection and administrative collection are not unfamiliar. So, what are legal collection and administrative collection? After a statement is issued on the card,…