cashless
PayPay announced that WeChat Pay (微信支付) will become available for use at PayPay merchants nationwide through HIVEX starting from mid-September this year. “HIVEX®” offers common business rules, system integration for cashless payment providers (MPSP), and a consistent neutral brand, bringing greater scalability at a commercial level to deliver a better
payments
Digital Garage's (DG) first-quarter results for the fiscal year ending March 2026 present a stark dichotomy that requires careful dissection. The headline figure—a consolidated pre-tax loss of ¥1.3 billion—paints a misleading picture of the company's health, triggering a market sell-off. This loss was
ecommerce
Introduction Mercari is committed to achieving the mid-term policy announced in FY2024.6, which aims for double-digit CAGR growth in revenue and a CAGR of at least 25% in core operating profit in FY2027.6. These targets remain unchanged. Following Mercari's basic policy to essentially aim for top-line
consumer finance
AEON Financial Services has submitted an amended securities report and other documents for the fiscal year ending February 2025 to the Director-General of the Kanto Regional Financial Bureau on July 31, 2025, and has also corrected its financial results summary, as detailed below. As announced on July 9, 2025, regarding
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The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has announced its approval of a commitment plan submitted by Visa Worldwide. The plan resolves an investigation into Visa's business practices, which the JFTC suspected were in violation of Japan's Antimonopoly Act. This decision concludes the matter without a formal
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LY Corporation's revenue for the cumulative consolidated first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026 amounted to 489.6 billion yen (up 5.7% year on year), representing the highest cumulative consolidated first quarter revenue to date. This was due to an increased revenue in the
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Infcurion has announced that its group company Link Processing has begun full-scale implementation of the cashless payment solution "Anywhere D135" on rear seat tablets deployed by GO Corporation, which provides the taxi app "GO". The rear seat tablets will undergo full-scale implementation from this summer and
banking
GMO Aozora Net Bank and the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering Morikawa-Narisue Laboratory have officially launched joint research towards the construction of innovative credit risk assessment models utilizing AI and machine learning. In other news, TRABOX has launched a new service called "Finto Invoice Payment", which
credit card
Tokyo Metro has announced the launch of a post-payment boarding service using touch payment methods with compatible cards (including credit, debit, and prepaid cards) and smartphones with such cards configured, on all Tokyo Metro lines starting in spring 2026. Tokyo Metro has been operating a "boarding service utilizing credit
credit card
High-end credit cards have recently become extremely popular in Japan, offering a variety of lifestyle benefits, rather than just loyalty points acceleration. For example, NTT Docomo has been successful with its Platinum card offerings (call us happy customers). Japan Airlines is taking the concept one level beyond, aiming for a
payments
Digital Garage group companies have made several new product announcements during the first half of July: * DG Financial Technology (DGFT), a subsidiary of Digital Garage, has announced the launch of initiatives integration of online and offline payments between compact automatic payment machines manufactured by AKATSUKI ELECTRIC, and DGFT's
cashless
In the current issue of the Nomura Research Institute's "Financial Information Technology Focus", Daisuke Tanaka lays out projections for individual payment instruments through 2030, based on available 2023 data. According to various statistical data, the total amount of cashless payments in 2023 (defined here as the