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Credit Card
Business customers can be issued an ATM card, known as a Business Debit Card. The cardholder must be the person authorized to act legally on behalf of the company, since the card operates on company accounts.
Credit Card
A financial card product issued against a primary card, with its own card number, expiration date, authority, limit, and PIN. Using a supplementary card is ideal for making purchases from more than one card while keeping all spending on a single statement.
Credit Card
It may sound impossible at first, but it is technically possible: a bank can issue chip debit cards under the same BIN as its magnetic stripe cards, with the card scheme's approval.
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 Institutions & E-Money
A prepaid card usable only at goods and service providers inside a single holiday village is considered to be used within a limited network and outside the scope of the Law, provided certain conditions are met.
Credit Card
When I think back to the Akbil I used when I first arrived in Istanbul, I think it's fair to say that Istanbulkart has undergone a very significant transformation. Users can now track activity, top up and view balances right from their phones.
Merchant & POS
For a transaction to go through clearing, the card-issuing bank and the merchant bank must be different. If they are the same, the transaction is not subject to clearing and is processed directly by the bank.
Payment Systems
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Visa and Mastercard suspended services for sanctioned Russian banks. This post explains the impact on cardholders and merchants, and Russia's MIR and UnionPay alternatives.
Debit Card
The use of prepaid cards, and the number of prepaid cards issued by e-money institutions, has risen sharply. This post looks at why, how to choose a card, and which fees prepaid cards charge.
HCE
Tokenization generates secure data from a credit card number, using specific algorithms, for use during authorization. In CNP transactions, it removes the risk of storing or compromising the original card number.
Credit Card
A prepaid card may look like a debit card since it has no predetermined limit and purchases are limited to the amount loaded by the cardholder, but in terms of use and operating logic it differs significantly from both credit and debit cards.
Credit Card
As credit cards become more and more a part of our lives, we now make almost all our purchases without cash. We inserted our card into the merchant's POS. We made a 100 TRY sale transaction. We received a receipt confirming it was successful.