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Can a Service Bank Provide Services to Interface Developers Resident Abroad?
No. Under the BRSA communiqué on service model banking, service banks can provide service model banking only to interface developers resident in Türkiye.
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Open Banking
No. Under the BRSA communiqué on service model banking, service banks can provide service model banking only to interface developers resident in Türkiye.

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.

Credit Card
This communiqué sets the rules for managing information systems used in bank card and credit card transactions. Card scheme operators, issuers, acquirers, merchants and outsourced service providers are all within its scope.

Payment Systems
An amendment was made to the communiqué on the information systems of payment and e-money institutions and data sharing services, setting 31/3/2025 as the deadline for other payment service providers' obligations.

Security
“Software-based Mobile Payment Security Requirements” is a document published by EMVCo in April 2020 to guide payment application developers in building secure payment applications. This post summarizes its purpose and who it concerns.

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.

Payment Systems
Let's start by defining e-money. In general terms, e-money is a monetary value stored on a secure technological device (such as a computer disk). E-money is a concept defined under Turkish law through legislation enacted by the BRSA (BDDK).

HSM & Security
ZWK stands for Zone Working Key. It encrypts the PIN so that it can travel securely between different financial institutions, such as the acquiring bank and the issuing bank.

Merchant & POS
All banks report the POS and merchant data they allocate to customers to BKM's MIV and MPV systems, which BKM then reports. These notifications include merchant and POS location details such as address, province, and district.

Clearing
Chip Condition Code is a code carried in the F60 (Additional Data) DE14 field during clearing that shows the chip read status. The possible values and their descriptions are listed below.

Merchant & POS
A smart cash register is a new-generation, IP-based payment recording device that integrates a cash register with a POS terminal. It combines fiscal devices and POS devices in a single unit and transmits data to the Ministry of Finance in real time.

Credit Card
The customer's name and surname printed on credit and debit cards is called the emboss name. But can the name be printed on a card without any limit? There is a defined field for all information printed on a card, and these fields have specific standards.