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Fintech companies combining finance and technology

Payment Systems

What is Fintech?

Fintech, short for financial technologies, is a term for companies that bring together finance and technology to provide easy and fast financial services, growing rapidly worldwide.

Logos of various international payment card schemes

Credit Card

What Are National and International Payment Schemes?

In the world of payment systems, just as credit cards are an indispensable product, a payment scheme is indispensable for credit cards. When a credit card product is launched, the scheme it will be issued under is decided first.

Illustration of the Alipay super app connecting payments, merchants and financial services

Closed-Loop Payments

Alipay: Payment System or Digital Economy? | Closed-Loop Payments #5

Is Alipay a payment system, or a digital economy? In the previous post we discussed how Starbucks shows that payment systems can evolve into a different structure. At first the goal was to make payment easier for the customer. As the system grew, loyalty programs...

Illustration of voice shopping and mobile payments with Mastercard

Merchant & POS

MasterCard Is Getting Ready for Voice Shopping

Payment systems once meant a physical card and a PIN on a POS device. Digitalization that began with contactless transactions has accelerated with mobile payments, and MasterCard is now working on voice shopping and Soft POS in Turkey.

Digital branchless bank concept with a mobile banking app on a smartphone

Payment Institutions & E-Money

Digital Banking Is Coming

Digitalization is showing itself first in banking and payment systems. The BRSA has announced it will begin issuing digital (branchless) bank licenses, opening the way for new digital banks in Turkey under an amendment to Banking Law No. 5411.

Announcement graphic for the FAST instant payment system transaction limit increase to 1,000 TL

FAST

FAST Transaction Limit Raised to 1,000 TL

Current information: This post describes the limit in effect at the time of publication. The FAST transaction limit, introduced in January, was raised periodically and reached 1,000 TL as of January 29. See the newer post for the current FAST limit.

Samsung Pay debit card announcement illustration

Payment Systems

Samsung Pay Debit Card is coming!!!!

Major technology companies' love for payment systems shows no sign of ending; in fact, some are just getting started. Apple, Huawei, and Google had previously announced plans to issue cards. According to new reports, Samsung is joining them.

Diagram illustrating the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard

Payment Systems

What Is ISO 20022?

There are standards that keep payment systems running smoothly and reliably. One of these is ISO 20022. So what is ISO 20022, and why was it created? It is an international, XML-based financial messaging standard developed in 2009.