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Credit Card
When banks launch a new card product, they can do it under an existing BIN or a new one. A new BIN requires much more work: BKM announces it, every bank defines it and every POS has to download it.
Credit Card
Credit cards and POS are two core products banks offer customers. At first glance, credit cards seem to generate no return beyond interchange fees, card fees, and late fees.
E-commerce
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.
Credit Card
KKB was established, under banking law, to enable the exchange of all kinds of information and documents among at least five banks, and it also shares credit information about customers. The Credit Bureau of Turkey also serves deposit banks, participation banks, financial institutions, and more.
Payment Systems
Below is information on the products found in the Visa and MasterCard systems and their associated product codes, listed under Product ID (cardProductId).
Credit Card
A single BIN cannot be used to issue both a credit card and a debit card. If a bank offers both products, it has at least two different BINs, allocated and announced separately by card type.
Credit Card
Payment systems are changing fast, and new players are emerging. The Advantage Card, the first installment credit card in Turkey and Europe, did not come from a bank, which holds lessons for today's fintech entrepreneurs.
Payment System Institutions
Thanks to the API developed by BKM, BKM Express member merchants can automatically update the BIN lists of cards issued by all banks in Türkiye and offer installments and reward points more efficiently.
Open Banking
Digital banking is talked about more every day, and with the BRSA's support in defining its scope, it is about to enter our lives. A 'digital bank' is a credit institution that provides banking services mainly through electronic channels rather than physical branches.
Credit Card
Banks generally keep a record in the system of a card's "First Transaction Date." This information is automatically populated by the online authorization system. So under what circumstances is it updated? First, an authorization transaction must…
Closed-Loop Payments
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...
Credit Card
The service code is information printed on a card's Track 1 and Track 2 data, covering card type, PIN usage, and domestic/international usage status. It is kept at the product level in bank systems.