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Mobile phone used to accept payments through the Secure Mobile Payment System

Merchant & POS

What Is Secure Mobile Payment?

The Secure Mobile Payment System is a system permitted by the Ministry, operated under the Revenue Administration (GIB) Communiqué, for sales, payment and collection transactions and the electronic creation, transmission and retention of the related financial documents.

Google Card, the physical payment card Google is reportedly preparing to rival Apple Card

Credit Card

Meet the Google Card!

After Apple Card, announced last March to great fanfare, Huawei said it would issue a card too. Google has now joined the race among tech companies by announcing a new card of its own.

Virtual currency versus electronic money

Payment Institutions & E-Money

Are Virtual Currency and Electronic Money the Same?

No. Virtual currency is a digital representation of value not issued by any central bank, credit institution or e-money institution. Electronic money is defined in Turkish law and is tied to an electronic money institution.

Electronic money definition illustration

Payment Institutions & E-Money

What Is Electronic Money?

In general, electronic money is monetary value stored on a protected technological device. Turkish law defines it under Law No. 6493 as electronically stored value issued against funds and accepted by third parties as a means of payment.

Illustration representing open banking and banking as a service with digital banking and API connection icons

Open Banking

What are the differences between Banking as a Service and Open Banking?

First, it is useful to briefly recall the concepts of Banking as a Service and Open Banking. Banking as a Service (BaaS) lets interface developers connect directly to service banks' systems via APIs and open banking services to run banking transactions for customers...

Example of a TR Karekod QR code used for payment

Contactless

What is a TR Karekod Transaction?

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.

Foreign payment institutions operating in Türkiye

Payment Systems

Can Foreign Payment Institutions Operate in Türkiye?

All payment and electronic money institutions operating in Türkiye fall under the relevant regulation. A license from a foreign authority is not enough; a foreign institution must obtain a license from the Central Bank.

Diagram of an external quarterly network vulnerability scan for PCI DSS compliance

Security

What Is a Quarterly Network Scan?

An external network scan run every 3 months by an Approved Scanning Vendor authorized by card schemes such as MasterCard and Visa, required for PCI DSS compliance. It checks whether merchant systems are protected against external threats.

Contactless NFC payment on an iPhone opened to third-party apps by Apple

Payment Systems

Apple opens NFC payments to third-party apps

Under the EU Digital Markets Act, Apple will let third-party developers in the European Economic Area offer NFC contactless payments inside iOS apps without Apple Pay or Apple Wallet, opening the way for banks and payment services to launch their own tap-to-pay solutions.

Shopper at an online checkout seeing a failed payment message because of an insufficient funds check

Online & Authorization

Why Do Your Payments Fail? How Funds Confirmation APIs Solve It

You press the pay button and the screen says the transaction failed. Behind that failure are checks on your balance and transaction security. This post explains how funds confirmation APIs work, where they apply, and the situation in Turkey's open banking.