PayPal’s Xoom, a specialist in digital money transfer, is expanding its service in Asia, making it easier for people in the U.S. to quickly and securely send money to Japan. Xoom is partnering with Queen Bee Capital, a provider of overseas transfer services, to offer customers a fast bank deposit service to major banks in…
JCB is bringing its customers Apple Pay when it launches in October, an easy, fast and secure way to make mobile payments that is private and convenient with iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus , Apple Watch Series 2 throughout their day, including in stores, within apps and on the web. Since its establishment in 1961,…
UnionPay cards can now be used at more than 170 merchants in Japan providing exclusive privileges and services for cardholders with UnionPay platinum cards and diamond cards, collectively called “premium card” issued around the globe. To date, over 5.4 billion UnionPay cards have been issued worldwide, and the number of premium card holders is increasing.…
Tokyo-based JCB is launching a new JCB global website on August 3rd. The website has a portal function to link to a wide range of other JCB websites in many countries/territories. The new site is a new and easy-to-navigate website that offers comprehensive information about JCB corporate, products and services. At the same time as…
Kyocera has introduced a real edge 600-dot-per-inch (dpi) thermal printhead for desktop card printers used for rigid materials such as ID cards and credit cards. The KPE Series 600dpi printhead, available worldwide from this month, provides crisp, high resolution printing with delicate color expression. The new 600dpi model is fully compatible with the conventional 300dpi…
C-Connect, the retail e-commerce company selling printer inks and sanitary napkins, has launched “Ippin” – the Online Shopping Mall specialized in direct sales and distribution from Japan to foreign countries. “Ippin” not only sells “Made in Japan” products but also high–quality “Produced by Japan” and “Popular in Japan” items, enabling customers to purchase directly from…
MasterCard now has its first mobile wallet service in Japan. The new JACCS Card is powered by MasterCard contactless technology. MasterCard is enabling secure, convenient mobile payments for Japanese cardholders with NFC-equipped smartphones issued by NTT DOCOMO, KDDI and SoftBank. Starting this month, cardholders can sign up with JACCS MasterCard Contactless Mobile at the JACCS…
JCB International Co., Ltd. (JCBI), the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., has started JCB merchant acquiring operations with the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA). JCB cards will be accepted at all of IBA’s acceptance locations throughout the country by the end of February 2016. JCB has more than 91 million JCB cardmembers in…
UnionPay International says its credit cards would now be accepted at all FamilyMart stores in Japan. Now, all the three major chain convenience stores in Japan, namely Lawson, 7-ELEVEn and FamilyMart, accept UnionPay cards and allow for easy PIN-free payment which is widely adopted at local convenience stores. According to data released, nearly 5 million…
JCB says it will analyze traffic patterns and payment data of international visitors to Japan by providing information on shopping, drinking, eating, and special offer services and by giving visitors a card type coupon, JCB PREMO, with a value of 1,000 yen in order to promote purchases. JCB will start a demonstration experiment this month…
An online shopping market place enabling purchases all kinds of merchandise offered domestically in Japan has been launched. Remambo offers a choice of millions of products.
Cyber security specialist WISeKey has made available its Cryptographic Root of Trust to Japanese IoT manufacturers and Chipmakers allowing them to add digital certificates on their chips at the hardware level to encrypt the communication and authenticate the devices.