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Credit Card
There are around 65,000,000 credit cards in Turkey. By design, credit cards work by opening a line of credit, allowing spending against that limit, generating a statement based on spending, and having the customer pay the resulting debt.
Credit Card
Credit cards have replaced cash in daily life. Although preferred for installments and reward points, they offer many benefits when used correctly, but uncontrolled spending and late payments can cause serious problems.
Credit Card
Credit cards make shopping easier, but spending without thinking about when the bill is due can cause payment problems. Choosing a statement date that matches your payday helps.
Laws & Regulations
Under the regulation on banks' information systems and electronic banking services, from 1 July banks may send statements, receipts and account summaries containing sensitive data only through electronic banking channels, not by email or SMS.
Payment Systems
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Visa and Mastercard suspended services for sanctioned Russian banks. This post explains the impact on cardholders and merchants, and Russia's MIR and UnionPay alternatives.
Credit Card
While reviewing your credit card statement, you suddenly notice a transaction you never made. What would you think? Is your card going shopping while you sleep? Let's look at how this can happen and what to do about it.
Credit Card
In credit card transactions made through a POS, receiving approval alone is not enough for the transaction to post to the card's statement period; settlement must also take place. The settlement period, known as the open-authorization waiting time, varies by transaction type.
Credit Card
The minimum payment amount is the portion of the monthly debt - resulting from a cardholder's credit card spending shown on the latest statement - that must be paid. How much of the total debt is the minimum payment amount? Although the calculation varies from bank to bank...
Merchant & POS
This can occur at companies selling products from different sectors. For example, you enter a shopping mall and buy a refrigerator for 3000 TL, a dishwasher for 2000 TL, and an iron for 1000 TL, each under a different installment campaign.
Credit Card
A credit card is a payment instrument that lets a customer borrow up to a limit set by the bank after evaluating certain criteria. Transactions made on the card are first recorded in the current-period transactions, then posted as debt on the statement date.
Credit Card
An installment transaction splits a payment into a set number of installments reflected on the cardholder's statement, when the card and POS bank are the same. For example, a 1000 TL transaction in 5 installments reflects 200 TL per statement period, starting from the first one.
Credit Card
The BRSA raised the card limit threshold used to set the minimum payment rate from TRY 50,000 to TRY 100,000. This post explains what changed, why now, the short-term relief, the risk of carried-over balances, and which data to watch.