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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.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
PayPal announced that it is launching payments with QR codes in 28 markets worldwide, including the USA, the UK, France, Hong Kong and Canada. Businesses can use QR codes to accept payments and consumers to shop contactlessly through the PayPal mobile app.
FAST
Request to Pay lets users request payment from people who owe them money through a banking application. The CBRT has expanded the FAST Request to Pay Overlay Service so that corporate users can also use it.
Merchant & POS
The GPRS Line Fee is the monthly charge banks pass on to merchants for each active GPRS POS terminal, covering the mobile operator cost of the line built into GPRS POS devices. It is not applied to IP POS or Dial-up POS terminals.
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, every exchange between POS devices and bank or payment institution systems runs on a specific messaging standard, generally based on ISO 8583. However, each country, bank, or switch network defines its own version of this standard.
Payment Systems
The Central Bank has published a guide setting out the detailed technical principles and rules for using TR Karekod in card payment transactions, based on the TR Karekod Regulation and the TR Karekod Principles and Rules.
Merchant & POS
Virtual or electronic authorization devices connected to a bank, used by merchants to accept card payments. The term comes from the English phrase Point of Sale. Covers POS types by communication method, their advantages, who can use one, and the transactions a POS can perform.
Contactless
A TR Karekod transaction is a payment carried out using a QR code generated according to the procedures and principles in the regulation on the generation and use of the TR Karekod in payment services.
Credit Card
It is a CVV2/CVC2 code that changes every few minutes instead of the static code printed on the back of a credit card, aimed at reducing fraud risk in CNP (Card Not Present) transactions.
Agentic Commerce
Are We Ready to Give an AI Agent the Authority to Make Payments? Having long looked at complaint and dispute processes in payment systems, I think granting an agent payment authority is far different from research or product selection.
Merchant & POS
Today is April 23, the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Grand National Assembly. Taking Children's Day as a starting point, this post looks at digitalization, Generation Z, blockchain, biometric payments and the cashless society from a payment systems perspective.