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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Credit Card
What Is a Card's First Transaction Date? What Is It Used For?
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…
Security
What Are the Visa and Mastercard Fraud Codes?
Fraud means obtaining unjust gain by carrying out a transaction at a merchant or ATM using someone else's credit card or debit card, causing a loss to the real cardholder, the merchant, or the bank. So what fraud codes do Visa and Mastercard use?
ATM
What Is the European ATM Security Team (EAST)?
EAST, originally the European ATM Security Team, is a non-profit organization working on ATM security. Founded in 2004, it later broadened its scope and became the European Association for Secure Transactions.
Payment Systems
What Is the “European Association for Secure Transactions (EAST)”?
EAST, the European Association for Secure Transactions, is a non-profit organization working on ATM, terminal and payment security. It was founded in 2004 as the European ATM Security Team.
EMV
What is the Card Block command?
The Card Block command is used after card issuance to deactivate all applications within the ICC, including applications that could be selected indirectly. The components of the command are explained below.
Payment Systems
What Is an Appeal? What Does It Mean in Payment Systems?
In payment systems, an “appeal” is the process of objecting to the outcome of a transaction dispute. It is usually discussed alongside chargebacks, but it plays a critical role in interbank dispute resolution, when a party asks the card scheme to re-evaluate a concluded decision.
Fraud
What should merchants pay attention to in order to reduce fraud?
In payment systems, fraud means using someone else's credit or debit card to carry out a transaction at a merchant or ATM, gaining unfair profit and causing loss to the real cardholder, the merchant, or the bank. Fraudsters…
Fraud
What is Fraud? What are the Types of Fraud?
With the growth of credit and debit card usage and rising e-commerce transaction volumes, there has been a serious increase in exploiting user negligence to harm customers. Fraud means using someone else's card at a merchant or ATM to gain unjust profit.
Payment Systems
What are offline transaction parameters? Can you give examples of how offline transactions are reported to the HOST?
Offline transaction parameters are divided into two types: contact offline and contactless offline. These parameters can be managed separately through Terminal data and Chip data. Offline transactions can be reported to the HOST after an online transaction, after X occurrences, and more.
Payment Systems
How Many Merchant Transactions Fail? Are We Checking?
Regularly reporting and tracking how many transactions fail at each merchant matters for both the merchant and the acquirer. BKM error codes tell us why POS transactions fail.
Credit Card
What Products and Services Does KKB Offer Directly to Members?
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.