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Laws & Regulations
A payment institution is a legal entity that provides payment services for electronic payments through the infrastructure it offers. This article covers the Turkish regulatory framework, licensing, safeguarding, supervision, penalties and taxation.
Payment System Institutions
MASAK General Communiqué No. 19, which sets the procedures and principles for remote identity verification methods used to verify customer identity, was published in the Official Gazette on 30 April 2021.
Security
In payment systems, personalized security credentials are information such as the PIN, card/account/e-money details, expiry date and security code (CVV) that identify the payment instrument and its user.
Merchant & POS
Yes, it is mandatory. This requirement was introduced to prevent fraud. To fulfill their obligations regarding identification of foreign customers, banks must make one of several arrangements on receipts, such as bilingual descriptions or an explicit foreign card warning.
Payment Systems
The BRSA has published a draft amendment to the regulation on remote identification methods used by banks and electronic contract relationships. It extends remote onboarding to legal entities, including MERSIS-based verification of representatives.
Credit Card
CVV and CVV2 values are often confused by cardholders. CVV is printed on the magnetic stripe and used for card verification when the card is physically swiped through a POS; CVV2 is printed on the back of the card for e-commerce authorization.
ATM
Because the ATM is the channel where customers physically handle cash, fraud cases happen there very often. Here are the precautions you can take to use ATMs safely.
Credit Card
The name for a list of problematic cards — lost, stolen, expired, over-limit, counterfeit, or otherwise flagged — published by card companies like Visa and MasterCard. Mastercard calls it the 'MasterCard Warning Notice'.
Credit Card
Grab, one of Southeast Asia's ride-hailing companies with a strong interest in finance, has introduced the GrabPay Card. Like the Apple Card, the physical card carries no card number, name or expiry date.
Credit Card
In the early years of credit cards, using the card physically was mandatory. With the internet and new technologies, we can now pay with only the card details, 3D Secure and contactless NFC payments, even without the card in hand.
Credit Card
What is a card expiration date? Learn why banks print this date on every card, how it's used in purchases, and what happens once it passes.
Credit Card
Many people who appear as credit card victims in the news and on social media run into trouble because they think their credit limit is unlimited and forget it must eventually be repaid. A credit card is the best payment instrument, if you know how to use it.