MerPay

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, jp-cro].

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]] (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-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]] (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) + [[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
• jp-cro In-corpus: reports/countries/JP-japan.md

Source

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