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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.
Merchant & POS
PSD stands for Payment Services Directive, known as the Payment Services Law. It took effect in EU countries in 2009, and in 2015 new revisions were announced as PSD1, aiming to build an efficient, fast, secure, and competitive payment market.
Payment Systems
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), (EU) 2016/679, is EU law on data protection and privacy. It gives individuals control over their personal data, requires breach notification within 72 hours, and allows fines of up to 20 million euros or 4% of annual revenue.
Credit Card
AMLD5 is the European Union's Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive. It updates the Fourth Directive to stop the financial sector being used for terrorist financing and money laundering.
Open Banking
The European Banking Authority (EBA) is an EU regulatory body headquartered in Paris. It runs stress tests on European banks to increase transparency and identify weaknesses in their capital structures. It was established on 1 January 2011.
Merchant & POS
The EU Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) is the EU's payment services law. ÖDED translated it into Turkish, creating an important handbook for anyone wanting to invest or work in this area.
ATM
ISO 4217, also known as the currency code standard, defines the three-letter abbreviations assigned to currencies. The ISO 4217 code list is used extensively in banking and business. In some countries, exchange offices rely on these codes alone.
Payment Systems
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.
Payment Systems
Open banking opens financial data, under the regulations and with the customer's explicit consent, to third-party service providers through standard APIs. The CBRT has published a guide on payment initiation and account information services, covering licensing and technical certification.
Payment Systems
The BRSA has published a draft regulation amending the Regulation on Debit Cards and Credit Cards. It introduces the card scheme definition, a customer right to choose the card scheme, and an obligation for acquirers to define licensed schemes on merchant POS devices.
Payment Systems
Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is a security requirement introduced under the EU's Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) to increase security and reduce fraud in online payment transactions. SCA requires two of three independent authentication factors.
Security
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, including not only names and birth dates but also physical, family, economic and social characteristics.