au PAY

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, jp-cro].

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-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]] (MUFG Bank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group; TYO: 8306 + NYSE: MUFG; Japan's largest commercial bank by assets) + [[smbc-olive]] (SMBC Olive Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation; TYO: 8316; Japan's #2 commercial bank by assets) + [[mizuho-bank]] (Mizuho Bank; TYO: 8411; Japan's #3 commercial bank by assets) + [[japanpost-bank]] (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
• jp-cro In-corpus: reports/countries/JP-japan.md

Source

Biography extracted from au-pay.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.