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Forgery in card payments means transactions made with card details without the cardholder's knowledge, or purchases with counterfeit or stolen cards. Merchants cannot eliminate fraud and chargeback risk, but they should aim to reduce it to reasonable levels.
Security
Fraud means obtaining unjust gain by carrying out a transaction at a merchant or ATM using someone else's credit card or debit card, causing a loss to the real cardholder, the merchant, or the bank. So what fraud codes do Visa and Mastercard use?
Payment Systems
In payment or cash withdrawal transactions, the TR QR Code is generated by the POS or ATM. The card issuing bank must build its systems to read and act on this code. Errors usually stem from mishandling the long and short QR code flows, which are explained here.
Debit Card
The use of prepaid cards, and the number of prepaid cards issued by e-money institutions, has risen sharply. This post looks at why, how to choose a card, and which fees prepaid cards charge.
Credit Card
What is BKM Express? BKM Express is a technical infrastructure solution developed by BKM that lets you pay securely for online purchases without sharing your card's full details. What are the advantages of BKM Express? To register your card you don't need to enter all…
Credit Card
A business credit card is a credit card offered by banks to businesses so they can make company expenditures and track and manage those expenses.
Credit Card
An installment is when a credit card transaction is split into a fixed number of monthly payments to the bank. For example, splitting a 100 TL purchase into 5 installments means paying the bank 20 TL per month until the full amount is paid off.
Credit Card
DCI (Debit/Credit Indicator) is a flag that shows whether a transaction was made with a credit card or a debit card. With the arrival of prepaid cards, it began to be used as DCPI (Debit/Credit/Prepaid Indicator). Is DCI sent in the authorization message?
Chargeback
The MasterCard and Visa chargeback reason codes that always, sometimes or never require a draft retrieval before a chargeback, with their descriptions. Includes Visa codes such as 60, 75, 79 and 81 and MasterCard codes 4801 and 4802.
Payment Systems
The Draft Retrieval Not Required Before Chargeback codes defined for Visa and Mastercard are listed below, so you can see which disputes can go straight to chargeback.
Payment Systems
BKM shares card payment data periodically. In 2020, the pandemic reshaped payment habits in Turkey: contactless and online payments surged and the total card payment amount grew 17 percent to TRY 1.15 trillion, with about 264 million cards in circulation.
Security
PAM (Personal Assurance Message) is a message that users set up for 3D Secure transactions. It appears on the password screen during checkout and confirms to the user that the screen truly comes from their own bank.