Wallets/au-pay
au PAY
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Overview
au PAY is KDDI Japanese telecom mobile wallet + KDDI Corporation TYO: 9433 Japanese mobile carrier au brand parent + one of Japan's largest telecom-anchored mobile wallets via au mobile + Pontaポイント Ponta points integration + ~35M+ Japanese users 1, Japan report.
History
Sep 2014 — au WALLET launched as KDDI Japanese telecom mobile wallet for au mobile subscribers.
Apr 2019 — au WALLET renamed au PAY + QR code payments + retail expansion distinctive Japanese telecom-anchored mobile wallet rebrand.
May 2020 — au PAY + Pontaポイント Ponta loyalty points integration.
Ownership & operator
Operating entity: au PAY (KDDI Japanese telecom mobile wallet; KDDI Corporation parent).
Major shareholders: KDDI Corporation (TYO: 9433; Japanese mobile carrier au brand parent + UQ mobile + povo).
Regulators: FSA Japan + BoJ.
Technical integration
au PAY mobile app (iOS + Android; ~35M+ Japanese users) + aupay.wallet.auone.jp online + au PAY Mastercard credit + prepaid cards + au PAY integration with Pontaポイント Ponta loyalty points; JP Zengin + JP QR Payment Link + au PAY QR Japanese telecom-anchored mobile QR payment scheme.
Implementations & partners
KDDI parent: KDDI (KDDI Corporation; TYO: 9433; Japanese mobile carrier au brand parent + UQ mobile + povo).
Major Japanese mobile wallet + payments competitors: PayPay (PayPay; SoftBank + LY Corporation JV; Japan's largest mobile wallet by users + transactions; ~65M+ Japanese users) + LINE Pay (LINE Pay; LINE mobile wallet; Japanese operations via LY Corporation) + d払い (d Barai) (d払い d Barai NTT Docomo Japanese mobile wallet) + Rakuten Pay (Rakuten Pay; Rakuten Japanese mobile wallet) + MerPay (MerPay Mercari Japanese mobile wallet) + Suica (Suica JR East Japanese transit + retail prepaid card) + Pasmo (Pasmo Tokyo Metropolitan Japanese transit + retail prepaid card) + MUFG Bank (Mitsubishi UFJ Direct app) (MUFG Bank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group; TYO: 8306 + NYSE: MUFG; Japan's largest commercial bank by assets) + Olive (SMBC + Sumitomo Mitsui Card) (SMBC Olive Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation; TYO: 8316; Japan's #2 commercial bank by assets) + Mizuho Bank (Mizuho Direct + Mizuho Wallet) (Mizuho Bank; TYO: 8411; Japan's #3 commercial bank by assets) + Japan Post Bank (Yucho) (Japan Post Bank Yucho; TYO: 7182; world's largest bank by deposits).
Regulators: FSA Japan + BoJ.
Status
Active, KDDI Japanese telecom mobile wallet + KDDI Corporation TYO:9433 Japanese mobile carrier au brand parent + one of Japan's largest telecom-anchored mobile wallets via au mobile + Pontaポイント Ponta points integration + ~35M+ Japanese users 1, 2.
Sources
- 1 au PAY — official
- 2 au PAY — Wikipedia
- Japan report In-corpus:
reports/countries/JP-japan.md
Source
Biography extracted from au-pay.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.