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FAST
Request to Pay lets users request payment from people who owe them money through a banking application. The CBRT has expanded the FAST Request to Pay Overlay Service so that corporate users can also use it.
Credit Card
The number of installments allowed varies for personal and corporate cards. A regulation by the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA), published in Official Gazette No. 30510 on 15.08.2018, set the installment limits that apply today.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
Innovations in payment systems continue. The CBRT's Regulation on Payment Services and Electronic Money Issuance and Payment Service Providers was amended and published in the Official Gazette, with new minimum equity requirements and activity restrictions.
EMV
The AID tells the terminal which applications are present on a chip during a POS or ATM transaction. What does the AID do? It lets the terminal determine whether it supports an application on the chip. In Tag 9F06, it is 5-16 digits long.
FAST
Until the FAST system was introduced, money transfers were made through the EFT structure. Due to evolving technology and changing customer expectations, a new structure called FAST was introduced. So what are the differences between EFT and FAST?
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...
FAST
The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) has implemented a significant limit increase in the FAST system. Under the regulation effective August 26, 2026, the FAST money transfer limit was raised from TRY 100,000 to TRY 300,000. The same increase also applies to Request to Pay...
Payment Systems
All electronic money institutions are authorized to issue electronic money under Law No. 6493. The payment services each one is licensed to offer are listed in the table published by the CBRT.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
According to ÖDED, its members are institutions that have applied for or received a license as a payment institution and/or electronic money institution under Law No. 6493. The member list by field of activity is on its website.
Payment Systems
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.
Credit Card
A business credit card is a credit card offered by banks to businesses so they can make company expenditures and track and manage those expenses.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
The new regulation on payment services and e-money issuance, published on 1 December 2021, repealed the 2014 regulation on payment institutions and e-money institutions and the related information systems communiqué. This post summarizes the change and the Article 33 equity requirement.