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Turkish bank lets you send money to friends through Facebook

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Re: Turkish bank lets you send money to friends through Facebook

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Post by zalew »

adambyrtek wrote: post #9
ozgune wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems like they had their "Facebook branch" open for ten months now. I wonder if they had any security issues. Either way, it's cool seeing kids withdraw cash from ATMs by typing in their SMS PIN numbers. Kind of makes you feel young, and old.

My favorite modern banking feature is instant SMS notifications about credit card charges. It's cool to immediately see the confirmation on a phone after you type PIN into a terminal. It's even better for online purchases, when you often don't know whether the payment went through or not (and why).

not so cutting edge, inteligo has had it for like 10 years or sth.

Re: Turkish bank lets you send money to friends through Facebook

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Post by oemera »

Turkey is very interesting in such things. I live in Germany and my parents live in Turkey. No bank in Germany would even think about such things but in I can't shake off the feeling that they just do it. Another cool thing my cousins told me is that they can send each other cash from mobile phone to mobile phone. Say I don't have money on my prepaid card and my friends have enough and don't use it, they just can send couple of bucks to my phone.

I mean I don't use a prepaid card but I think it is awesome! As a student this is a great option!

I hope we see more of this kind of rule breaking things from around the world. Sometimes it feels like the people in the world are getting more and more afraid of change which breaks "common rules". Money transferring is one such crazy issue.

Re: Turkish bank lets you send money to friends through Facebook

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Post by adambyrtek »

zalew wrote: post #11
adambyrtek wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favorite modern banking feature is instant SMS notifications about credit card charges. It's cool to immediately see the confirmation on a phone after you type PIN into a terminal. It's even better for online purchases, when you often don't know whether the payment went through or not (and why).

not so cutting edge, inteligo has had it for like 10 years or sth.

I'm not saying it's something special, just an example of useful application of SMS in banking.

Re: Turkish bank lets you send money to friends through Facebook

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Post by diminish »

oemera wrote: post #12

Turkey is very interesting in such things. I live in Germany and my parents live in Turkey. No bank in Germany would even think about such things but in I can't shake off the feeling that they just do it. Another cool thing my cousins told me is that they can send each other cash from mobile phone to mobile phone. Say I don't have money on my prepaid card and my friends have enough and don't use it, they just can sen…

In a similar note, Africa; (especially Kenya) have wonderful services with mobile payments, SMS services and Facebook too.
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