Committees

Arbitration Committee

Our members may apply to the Arbitration Committee of BKM A.Ş. for settlement of the disputes arising from violation of the card payment system that they cannot resolve by way of adverse presentation. The committee analyses the litigious cases occurring between two members upon the application of the member, and acts as an arbitrator between the parties.

Operations and Technology Committee

BKM Operations and Technology Committee has been established with the aim to constitute the common standards and rules between the banks that carry on business of card payment systems in the domestic market, to prepare the specification, procedure and regulations pertaining to the card payment system and to follow up the technological developments and lay down the conditions of application in the domestic market.

Market Development Committee

BKM A.Ş. Market Development Committee has been established with the aim to develop projects in relation to card payment systems aimed at increasing the card demand, expanding and encouraging card utilization by the card holders, to make market researches, arrange training activities, and to prepare the communication materials for the associated merchants of the BKM member banks. The Market Development Committee performs further works for expanding the market of the merchants which accept credit cards as means of payment and for directing the advertisement campaigns and press announcements to be made for this purpose.

Security Committee

The Security Committee has been established for the purpose of providing preventive solutions against counterfeit / fraud related to card payment system in Turkey, setting the security measures, and contributing to the legal arrangements, standards, specifications, rules, procedures and regulations to be executed for this purpose and continuing and strengthening the relations with the General Directorate of Public Security.

Business Development Committee

Business Development Committee has been established with the aim to constitute the scope and standards of new services, applications, products and technologies for BKM member banks, to analyze, to prepare strategy, project plan and feasibility reports, to follow up the technological developments within the payment system industry and to present reports to the Executive Board.