Topic: Technology and innovation

Amendments have been made to the Regulation on Authorization in the Electronic Communications Sector.

‘FinTech Pulse’ is a new monthly podcast covering the FinTech sector's latest global news and regulatory developments as well as market trends and hot topics.

Ekin İnal and H. Alper Tüzün from İnal Ünver Attorney Partnership (in association with Norton Rose Fulbright in Turkey) have published a guide to FinTech in Turkey.

According to data provided on the Ministry of Industry and Technology’s website, there are currently more than 1,500 research and development (R&D) and design centers employing more than 70,000 people in Turkey.

The Information and Communication Technologies Authority published a group of decisions relating to banning advertisements on social media platforms.

Turkey will attach more importance to Africa in 2020” stressed Turkey’s Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan on a visit to Nigeria and Morocco during the week of January 13, 2020.

Istanbul Clearing, Settlement and Custody Bank (“Takasbank”), which is authorized by The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey for payment and security settlement systems under Law No. 6493 on Payment and Security Settlement Systems, Payment Services and Electronic Money Institutions, has been working on a new transfer infrastructure platform called BiGa – the abbreviation of ‘bir gram altın’, which stands for ‘one gram of gold’ in Turkish – since early 2018.

The Turkish Data Protection Board (“Board”) announced the extension of VERBİS registration deadline until June 30, 2020 for.

Our latest white paper addresses the planned and actual use of biometrics—the measurement of unique human physiological and behavioral characteristics — in today’s (and tomorrow’s) vehicles.