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.
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Open Banking
What is GFHF (Global Fintech Hubs Federation)?
The Global Fintech Hubs Federation is a global federation bringing together more than 20 FinTech organizations worldwide, including FinTech Istanbul. Its duties include fostering unity for the ecosystem and sharing knowledge and experience.
Payment Systems
What are Account Information Service Providers?
Digital Account Checking underpins many innovative banking and FinTech services. In most cases, it is performed by Account Information Service Providers, which supply data from customers' online bank accounts to other banks and third-party providers.
E-commerce
What Is Agentic Commerce? How AI Agents Will Change E-Commerce and Payment Systems
AI agents are moving beyond answering questions to searching, deciding, and paying on behalf of users. This post explains Agentic Commerce and what it means for payment systems, digital wallets, e-money institutions, banks, and fintechs.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
What Is Open Banking?
Open banking means sharing customers' financial information with a third-party fintech company so that a range of banking and financial services can be offered to them. It works through API integrations. This post covers its status in Turkey and the new BRSA regulation.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
Amendments Made to the Communiqué on Information Systems of Payment and Electronic Money Institutions and Data Sharing Services of Payment Service Providers
On 7 October 2023, the CBRT amended the Communiqué on Information Systems of Payment and E-Money Institutions and Data Sharing Services of Payment Service Providers, first published on 1 December 2021. Links to the new text, a comparison table and a detailed summary of changes follow.
Mobile Payments
Economic Reforms Action Plan Published: How Should We Interpret These Reforms?
New developments emerge every day in payment systems and digital payments. The Economic Reforms Action Plan, published by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance, includes several items of close interest to fintechs, such as TROY, BKM representation, digital banking licensing and CBRT access.
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.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
Review Report on Financial Technologies in Payment Services Published
The “Review Report on Financial Technologies in Payment Services”, prepared after a study launched on 9 November 2020 to assess Türkiye's payments fintech ecosystem and its effects on competition, has been published.
Open Banking
Does Service Model Banking Require a BRSA Operating License?
Under the communiqué, service model banking does not require a separate BRSA license, but the service bank must notify the BRSA in writing before signing a contract with an interface developer.
General
Agentic Commerce Series – Part 6
Who will win in Agentic Commerce? Owning the customer used to be a huge advantage. Once an agent starts deciding on the customer's behalf, where does the real power move to?
Payment Systems
Agentic Commerce Series - Part 2
If users start describing their needs instead of searching for products, one of the internet economy's most fundamental habits could change.