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Japan’s JCB Card Adds Value to India’s Domestic Payment Scheme

Brian Riley by Brian Riley
August 20, 2019
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Japan’s JCB Card Adds Value to India’s Domestic Payment Scheme

Japan’s JCB Card Adds Value to India’s Domestic Payment Scheme

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Since 1960, JCB was a well-run, domestic payment card in Japan. For four decades, there seemed to be little aspiration for meeting Mastercard or Visa in the global market; the firm preferred to service its traveling businesspeople and domestic purchasers.

The brand began spreading its wings in 1990 with modest acceptance roll outs in Australia, Guam, Thailand, and the U.K., but 2006 was a shift. JCB bought the Diners Club franchise for Japan and began a bilateral acceptance with Discover. Bilateral acceptance was a significant win for both Discover and JCB. At the time, Discover was aiming for global acceptance, a target Discover achieved with overwhelming success.

As of 2015, the JCB grew to 20 million cards outside of Japan. Since 2014, the card brand established issuing relationships in Austria, Brazil, Germany, Laos, and Russia.

But here’s the big one. Newkeral.com, an Indian news source, reports that the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) is partnering on adding the JCB acceptance brand to India’s RuPay card.

What’s exciting here is how the domestic payment card model is evolving.

The concept of a domestic payment card is straight forward. In developing markets, residents might not need an international card such as Mastercard or Visa. Many cases show that the cardholder will rarely wander more than 100 miles from home, so the meaning of a card with global reach has little impact to the farmer in remote China or the tech-worker in Mumbai.

The NPCI/JCB venture is well-conceived. Within India, the card routes on domestic rails; outside of India, the JCB brand drives the payment.

  • “Our basic strategy is to have the JCB card used all over the world and not only in Japan. Pursuing the same, we chose ten countries, with Asia being the focus to expand our business.
  • India is number one among those ten countries taking into consideration its huge potential. And that is why we are presenting our JCB card here,” said Kimihisa Imada, the President and COO of JCB International.
  • Where the first phase of the partnership between NPCI and JCB enabled merchants and ATMs in India to accept foreign JCB credit cards, the second phase would enable Indian travelers to use their JCB credit card in foreign countries where the card is accepted.
  • Eight banks in India will issue RuPay JCB Global Cards.

There are three takeaways: RuPay, the Indian domestic scheme, is stepping outside of its localized mandate; the domestic payment scheme is developing with reach beyond its original design; and JCB is making broader acceptance goals.

Overview by Brian Riley, Director, Credit Advisory Service at Mercator Advisory Group

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