Wallets/merpay
MerPay
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Overview
MerPay is Japanese mobile wallet + Mercari Inc TYO: 4385 Japanese C2C marketplace parent + one of Japan's most popular C2C-anchored mobile wallets integrated within Mercari marketplace + ~18M+ Japanese users 1, Japan report.
History
Feb 13 2019 — MerPay launched by Mercari as Japanese C2C-anchored mobile wallet distinctive Japanese C2C-anchored mobile wallet heritage.
Nov 2019 — MerPay integration with NTT Docomo iD contactless payments.
Ownership & operator
Operating entity: MerPay (Japanese mobile wallet; Mercari parent).
Major shareholders: Mercari Inc (TYO: 4385; Japanese C2C marketplace; Shintaro Yamada founder + CEO).
Regulators: FSA Japan + BoJ.
Technical integration
MerPay integrated within Mercari mobile app (iOS + Android; ~18M+ Japanese users) + jp.merpay.com online + MerPay Mastercard prepaid card; JP Zengin + JP QR Payment Link + MerPay QR Japanese C2C-anchored mobile QR payment scheme.
Implementations & partners
Mercari parent: Mercari + Merpay (Mercari Inc; TYO: 4385; Japanese C2C marketplace; Mercari + Merpay + Mercoin + Mercari US parent).
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 telecom mobile wallet; ~56M+ Japanese users) + au PAY (au PAY KDDI Japanese telecom mobile wallet; ~35M+ Japanese users) + Rakuten Pay (Rakuten Pay; Rakuten Japanese e-commerce mobile wallet; ~40M+ Japanese users) + 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) + Seven Bank (Seven Bank; TYO: 8410).
Regulators: FSA Japan + BoJ.
Status
Active, Japanese mobile wallet + Mercari Inc TYO:4385 Japanese C2C marketplace parent + one of Japan's most popular C2C-anchored mobile wallets integrated within Mercari marketplace + ~18M+ Japanese users 1, 2.
Sources
- 1 MerPay — official
- 2 Mercari — Wikipedia
- Japan report In-corpus:
reports/countries/JP-japan.md
Source
Biography extracted from merpay.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.