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E-commerce
BKM Express has pioneered card storage and digital wallets in Turkey. After the Competition Authority's termination decision, a Board decision revoked it, so BKM Express will continue. Here is the latest situation.
Merchant & POS
Onboarding refers to all the practices that help a customer learn to use a product or service for the first time. In payment institutions, it covers verifying a customer's information and documents during merchant application.
Payment Systems
Fintech, short for financial technologies, is a term for companies that bring together finance and technology to provide easy and fast financial services, growing rapidly worldwide.
Credit Card
Payment systems are changing fast, and new players are emerging. The Advantage Card, the first installment credit card in Turkey and Europe, did not come from a bank, which holds lessons for today's fintech entrepreneurs.
Merchant & POS
Payment systems once meant a physical card and a PIN on a POS device. Digitalization that began with contactless transactions has accelerated with mobile payments, and MasterCard is now working on voice shopping and Soft POS in Turkey.
Credit Card
Prepaid cards have changed how families manage children's spending. The Manibux allowance app now serves schools with its K12 application, letting parents load separate allowance and canteen balances for their children.
Credit Card
A credit card is one of the most important payment tools in our lives, which is why keeping it secure is extremely important. So how do we secure a credit card? The most important security measure is the card PIN.
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?
Merchant & POS
Chip&Pin, introduced in Turkey on March 31, 2006, is a payment method that greatly reduces the risks of card copying and loss or theft fraud. The chip on the card reduces copying risk, while the 4-digit PIN prevents unauthorized use of a lost card.
Merchant & POS
A POS is a functional device with its own dedicated software, customized according to the authorization system of the bank it is connected to, that accepts credit or debit cards. So, banks abroad launch dozens of new card products every day…
ATM
RKL is the process of distributing a TMK (Terminal Master Key) to each terminal from a central point. It is used to remotely load keys onto POS and ATM devices, loading TMKs onto an ATM's keypad or activating them on a POS.
HCE
When we talk about HCE methodology, many interacting architectural components come to mind. The core terms describing this architecture are listed below, starting with GCM/FCM (Google/Firebase Cloud Messaging), a service for sending push notifications.