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Payment Systems
Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) is a next-generation protocol that lets AI agents integrate directly into commercial processes such as payments, orders, refunds and subscriptions. This post explains how it works and what it offers businesses.
Merchant & POS
In payment systems, every exchange between POS devices and bank or payment institution systems runs on a specific messaging standard, generally based on ISO 8583. However, each country, bank, or switch network defines its own version of this standard.
Payment Systems
Digitalization keeps changing the speed and shape of payments. AI-based payment agents pay on their own within user-defined limits and rules, completing transactions without the user initiating any action. This post explains how they work and what to watch for.
Security
Access Security Control (ACS) is the security protocol that the card-issuing bank must maintain in 3-D Secure to support cardholder authentication, functioning as a complete authentication solution for issuers and payment processors.
Security
Access Security Control (ACS) is the security protocol that the card-issuing bank must maintain under the 3-D Secure protocol to support cardholder authentication. 3-D Secure is an XML-based protocol that adds an extra security layer to online card payments.
Payment Systems
NFC is a data transfer technology developed by Sony and Philips in late 2002 and adopted as an ISO/IEC standard in 2003. ISO/IEC 18092/ECMA-340 (NFCIP-1) is one of the two globally accepted NFC standards.
HCE
An international standard that defines proximity cards used in Near Field Communication (NFC) and the protocols used to communicate with them. It has 4 parts; Part 4 covers NFC and HCE operations.
Merchant & POS
The EMV Level 1 standard refers to an important global payment industry specification defining the electrical and physical interface between credit and debit cards and the payment terminal (ATM/POS). The EMV Contactless Level 1 certification guarantees that the device…
Online & Authorization
You press the pay button and the screen says the transaction failed. Behind that failure are checks on your balance and transaction security. This post explains how funds confirmation APIs work, where they apply, and the situation in Turkey's open banking.
ATM
With a protocol signed on 04.04.2018, Türkiye's public banks launched the “Free Shared ATM Use” system, allowing their customers to use each other's ATMs free of charge for many transactions.
Online & Authorization
OpenAI and Stripe announced the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), with Instant Checkout live on Etsy and Shopify in the US. What this means for payment facilitators and e-commerce platforms, and what may come beyond one-click checkout.
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.