Credit Card
What Is SAFE (System to Avoid Fraud Effectively)?
SAFE, short for System to Avoid Fraud Effectively, refers to fraud records created by issuing banks. Fraud records sent in the Mastercard clearing format fall under the SAFE category.
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Payment Systems
What is a tower?
In payment systems, the tower is the section inside an ATM where cash is physically stored. It contains cassettes holding different banknote denominations, a mix cassette for mismatched notes, and various security mechanisms protecting the cash.
Payment Systems
Why Do Some Contactless Payments Require a PIN?
The biggest benefit of contactless payment is completing small transactions quickly. You can pay purchases under 350 TL without a PIN, while purchases above 350 TL require your card PIN.
Security
What are HTTP and HTTPS? What are the security differences between them?
When you visit a website, the protocol it supports appears at the left of the web address. Secure data transfers likewise use protocols that support http or https. Let's first take a brief look at what HTTP and HTTPS are.
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.
ATM
What Should We Pay Attention to When Using an 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.
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?
Closed-Loop Payments
Is Starbucks Selling Coffee, or Building an Ecosystem? | Closed-Loop Payments #4
Is Starbucks really selling coffee, or building an ecosystem? Prepaid balances, a loyalty program and customer data turn a coffee chain's payments into a closed-loop economy, a very different model from Istanbulkart.
Payment Systems
Dynamic CVM Limit Management Approach: A New Era in Card Security
One of the most notable recent developments in card payments is that contactless limits are no longer fixed and can be managed dynamically per customer. Mastercard and Visa are taking different but complementary approaches, and ISO 8583 may need to evolve with them.
ATM
Today Is the Anniversary of the ATM Entering Our Lives!
The first device that can truly be called an ATM was produced by De La Rue for Barclays Bank and put into service in Enfield, London, on 27 June 1967. The ATM came to Türkiye in 1982.
Merchant & POS
How Important Is the Checkout Page in Payments?
The checkout page is where an online purchase is completed, and cart abandonment is highest there. This post lists design tips: support all cards, limit transition pages, show security cues, allow guest checkout and remove distractions.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
PayPal Expands Its QR Code Payment Service
PayPal announced that it is launching payments with QR codes in 28 markets worldwide, including the USA, the UK, France, Hong Kong and Canada. Businesses can use QR codes to accept payments and consumers to shop contactlessly through the PayPal mobile app.