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Credit Card
Today, as cash use steadily declines and credit card use keeps rising, using credit cards in line with one's income -so to speak, stretching your legs only as far as your blanket reaches- benefits both the cardholder and the country, as well as merchants.
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...
Agentic Commerce
The next customer on the internet may not be human. If AI agents become part of purchasing decisions, the rules of e-commerce, marketing, and payment systems could change.
General
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?
Laws & Regulations
The CBRT announced that it has launched open banking services in payments, a component of the digital economy roadmap of its liraization strategy, through BKM's Open Banking Gateway (GEÇİT).
Payment Systems
If users start describing their needs instead of searching for products, one of the internet economy's most fundamental habits could change.
Closed-Loop Payments
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.
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.
E-commerce
Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) is a business model in which consumers trade with each other, usually online. This post explains how C2C works, gives examples from Turkiye, and describes the types of C2C businesses.
Credit Card
Payment systems statistics are reported periodically by the Interbank Card Center (BKM), including total card count, total card turnover, and the growth trend of the card world in the period.
Credit Card
The effect of credit cards on inflation has been debated for years. Because I am asked about it so often, I ran a poll on arifunal.com to gather readers' views. This post weighs the positive and negative effects and compares the poll with the research findings.
Agentic Commerce
Can AI Decide on Our Behalf? Letting an AI agent handle research can make life much easier. The real question is where that should stop, and how much decision-making authority we are ready to hand over.