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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
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PayPay Corporation has launched a new payment method, "PayPay Bank Balance," starting April 15, 2025. This payment option is available through the PayPay Bank app provided by PayPay Bank Corporation. Payments made through the PayPay interface within the PayPay Bank app will be directly debited from the Japanese
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Digital Garage and its payment business subsidiary, DG Financial Technology, have partnered with the All Japan Real Estate Association (Zennichi), which comprises about 30% of real estate companies nationwide, to provide "Rabby Pay Powered by Cloud Pay Neo" service to over 35,000 Zennichi member companies nationwide using
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PayPay Corporation announces that four new services used in six countries can now process payments at PayPay merchant locations that use "Alipay+". The newly added services are "K PLUS" (Thailand), "Kaspi.kz" (Kazakhstan), "Bluecode" (Germany, Austria), and "BigPay" (Thailand, Malaysia,
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Nudge has obtained a license as a "Certified Comprehensive Credit Purchase Intermediary" based on the Installment Sales Act. When entering the credit card business as a startup, Nudge initially operated as a "Small-Amount Comprehensive Credit Purchase Intermediary", offering credit cards with limits of 100,000 yen
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JCB Cards are now available as a payment method for the App Store and Apple Services in Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. Customers can now use their JCB Cards to pay for purchases on the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV app, iTunes, iCloud storage
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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank will reorganize its subsidiaries engaged in the credit card business, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Card and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Club, with the merger of both companies scheduled for October 1, 2025. Trust Club issues cards such as the Diners Club Card, which has many high-income members, while
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Sony Electronics Singapore (SES) and Crypto.com have enabled the acceptance of Circle's USDC, a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, exclusively on the Sony Store Online in a move to make direct crypto payment accessible to SES’ consumers. The integration of cryptocurrency payments is gaining traction worldwide to appeal
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PayPay Corporation announces that the number of "PayPay" payments in 2024 has exceeded 7.46 billion, accounting for approximately 1 in 5 of the total 38.8 billion cashless payments in Japan. The total number of QR code payments increased by 23% year-on-year to over 11.5 billion,
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JR Shikoku, Toyo Denki Seizo, and DG Financial Technology have equipped the "On-board Supplementary Ticket Issuance App" used by conductors with QR code payment functionality starting April 1, 2025. This will allow passengers to pay for tickets purchased from conductors on JR Shikoku trains using QR code payment
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Nudge has partnered with Snap to Earn game "SNPIT" to begin offering the "Official SNPIT Credit Card" through the next-generation "Nudge Card." About SNPIT "SNPIT" is a new "Snap to Earn" service that allows users to earn unique tokens by
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"elepay bill payment" is a service that allows users to create invoices on the "elepay" management screen or through API integration. Until now, payment methods such as bank transfers and credit cards have been mainstream in Business-to-Consumer (B2C) businesses. "elepay" is a cashless specialized