BKM is the national switch, clearing and settlement processor and the regulating body for the card payments space in Turkey. BKM was founded by the Turkish banks in 1990 and since then, BKM played a huge role in the development of card payment systems in…

Last week, we’ve seen in the breaking news that the Google Wallet was hacked. The PIN that is required to unlock the wallet is displayed within seconds by using a separate application, Wallet Cracked.

On 20–21st of June, I attended an event from SMi Group in London on contactless and NFC. I presented the Turkish market and Yapi Kredi’s products and services. It was a great opportunity to keep updated about the contactless & NFC space throughout Europe. I met…

I wrote an article for E-Finance & Payments Law & Policy, a monthly journal published in the UK, about Turkey’s payment industry and the mobile payment trends. It was published on the October 2012 issue.

NFC World Congress took place on September 17–19 at the French Riviera. I was not able to attend but my below article was published in the official publication of the event. I tried to materialize the use cases of NFC beyond payment in a near…

Google has been working on Google Wallet for a long time. We’ve seen the first NFC payment experience via Google Wallet when it was released with a Citi prepaid card on Nexus. The first version came with a pre-installed Citi prepaid account and a 10 dollars. It…

Paypal announced its new president as David Marcus, the VP of mobile payments at Paypal. Apart from his highly successful carrier path, this assignment definitely points me to the fact that mobile space is the way to go. The world’s leading…

For long years, Mifare has been the king of public transportation as the ticketing platform. As I already mentioned few times, Mifare has been insanely successful, yet it was proved to be not secure any more. However it still works for may transit operators and NXP made its move to secure it with more…