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E-commerce
In recent years, data exchange over wireless mobile devices has become much faster and more secure. In 2019, mobile devices were used in 54.5 percent of purchases made by e-commerce users. With the steady growth in mobile users, mobile commerce keeps gaining ground.
Credit Card
Digitalization is reshaping payment systems. Credit cards are moving from physical plastic to virtual cards, e-wallets and mobile payments. Will physical card use disappear completely? Here is a look at the trends, Generation Z and the remaining gaps.
Payment Systems
This Guide links business models frequently encountered in the payments field to the payment services listed in Law No. 6493 on Payment and Securities Settlement Systems, Payment Services and Electronic Money Institutions, and aims at uniformity in practice.
Credit Card
Card-to-Card Money Transfer (CCMT) lets customers send money 24/7 from a credit, debit, or prepaid card to another card via ATM, internet banking, call center, or mobile app.
HSM & Security
A Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is an environment where executed code and accessed data are isolated and protected in terms of confidentiality (no one has access to the data) and integrity (no one can alter the code or its behavior). We may not realize it, but many…
Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin is a digital currency launched experimentally in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto. It has no ties to any central bank, can be bought and sold with national currencies and can be transferred without any intermediary.
HCE
There are three types of PIN strategy in HCE (Host Card Emulation): No PIN, Card PIN and Wallet PIN or customer biometric data. Each balances user experience and security differently.
Merchant & POS
Digitalization has brought major change to payment systems, just as it has to every area of our lives. Its biggest impact has been turning the financial world into something virtual, spanning IoT, mobile payments, blockchain and biometrics.
Payment Systems
The Interbank Card Center (BKM) periodically publishes payment systems reports on its website, making it possible to follow the sector's development. The report on mobile contactless and QR code payments is available on the BKM site.
Security
“Software-based Mobile Payment Security Requirements” is a document published by EMVCo in April 2020 to guide payment application developers in building secure payment applications. This post summarizes its purpose and who it concerns.
Payment Systems
Soft POS is a POS application that lets merchants accept payments from contactless cards or mobile wallets on Android devices, without needing a physical terminal. Companies market it under various names such as pocket POS or mobile POS.
HCE
Generating a token from the card number is essential to the security of payments made with mobile devices. The level of tokenization used depends on the need and on how critical the token is. Static tokenization: the token is generated once and stored in a database.