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Open Banking
EPSM is a non-profit trade association that represents its members' interests and enables the exchange of news, information and opinions about the European payments market.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
On 7 October 2023, the CBRT amended the Communiqué on Information Systems of Payment and E-Money Institutions and Data Sharing Services of Payment Service Providers, first published on 1 December 2021. Links to the new text, a comparison table and a detailed summary of changes follow.
Chargeback
A chargeback is a dispute raised against a card transaction when the cardholder did not make it or does not recall it. The dispute types vary depending on the situation; let's look at them.
Payment Systems
Official Gazette No. 32332 dated 07.10.2023 published the amending Regulation and Communiqué covering digital wallets, e-money, share transfers, cloud outsourcing, remote identity verification and card system choice.
Merchant & POS
The answer depends on the type of POS terminal. A physical POS (GPRS, Dial-Up, IP, or cash-register POS) requires working with a bank. A virtual POS can also be obtained from a payment institution without a separate bank agreement.
Payment Systems
TCR stands for Transaction Record Component, the packets that carry transaction information in a clearing system. Transaction types in a clearing file are distinguished by transaction code and usage code values, and this data is sent inside TCR packets.
Merchant & POS
For a POS device to be issued to a customer, the customer must have a legal entity status, such as a sole proprietorship, commercial company, or foundation/association. POS devices cannot legally be issued to individual customers.
Credit Card
This communiqué sets the rules for managing information systems used in bank card and credit card transactions. Card scheme operators, issuers, acquirers, merchants and outsourced service providers are all within its scope.
Payment Systems
With its announcement of 30/11/2023, the Revenue Administration published a draft Tax Procedure Law General Communiqué to complete the replacement of old-generation payment recorder devices (EN OKC) with new-generation ones (YN OKC), reduce cash use and increase card payment options.
Payment Systems
ISO 18245 is an ISO standard on the management of Merchant Category Codes (MCC) in retail financial services. ISO 18245: 2003 defines the code values used to classify merchants by the type of business, trade or service they provide.
Merchant & POS
The Merchant Registry System is the system at BKM that holds information on merchants accepting electronic payments, set up to simplify TR QR Code payment processes and prevent fraud and misuse in payments.
Online & Authorization
A reference guide to authorization response codes seen on POS and ATM transactions, with plain-language explanations of what each code means and what to do about it.