Jcb news and trends

JCB and Fiserv Team to Increase Card Acceptance in Europe
Partnerships // April 03, 2023

JCB cards can now be accepted by merchants in the United Kingdom, Germany and Poland. This expansion follows JCB International’s formation of a new multiregional collaboration with Fiserv, which provides payments and financial services technology solutions globally and enables card acceptance for tens of thousands...

JCB Debuts NFC-Based Machine-to-Machine Payments
Digital Payments // December 17, 2021

Japanese payments network JCB recently showed off its machine-to-machine payments infrastructure that enables merchants to accept near-field communication (NFC) payments, even when the customer and merchant are both offline, according to a Dec. 13 press release. JCB’s machine-to-machine payments infrastructure uses NFC, blockchain and self-sovereign...

Checkout.com to Debut JCB’s Card Authentication in UK
Partnerships / Acquisitions // September 07, 2021

Checkout.com, a global payments platform, will be implementing card issuer and payment company JCB’s J/Secure2.0 authentication platform for card-not-present transactions for its merchants in the U.K. The service will add more identification requirements and make checkouts more secure, a press release stated on Tuesday (Sept....

Payments Alliance Offers Contactless Standard, Partners With JCB
Digital Payments // March 11, 2021

The White Label Alliance said it has inked a license agreement with JCB. Under the deal, alliance members will “benefit from the use of the JCB Contactless” standard, which it said works with most acceptance terminals. As a result, members have the ability to “draw...

Interviews & Exclusives
How Asia Is Revolutionizing The $70B X-Border Tuition Space

October 11, 2019
Pay local — on a global scale. To that end, Flywire said at the end of last month that it has partnered with JCB International in a relationship that provides international students in Asia with options as they make cross-border tuition payments. In a PYMNTS interview with Karen Webster, Ryan Frere, vice president of global […]

Quick Reads
EMVCo Reports 12.8 Billion EMV Chip Cards In Circulation

August 10, 2023
According to data from EMVCo, the adoption of EMV Chip card technology is on the rise. By the end of 2022, 12.8 billion EMV® Chip cards were in global circulation, representing a 7% uptick compared to the previous year. In addition to this, 69% of all issued cards are EMV-enabled, and 93% of all card-present […]

JCB and Fiserv Team to Increase Card Acceptance in Europe

April 03, 2023
JCB cards can now be accepted by merchants in the United Kingdom, Germany and Poland. This expansion follows JCB International’s formation of a new multiregional collaboration with Fiserv, which provides...

JCB Debuts NFC-Based Machine-to-Machine Payments

December 17, 2021
Japanese payments network JCB recently showed off its machine-to-machine payments infrastructure that enables merchants to accept near-field communication (NFC) payments, even when the customer and merchant are both offline, according...

Checkout.com to Debut JCB’s Card Authentication in UK

September 07, 2021
Checkout.com, a global payments platform, will be implementing card issuer and payment company JCB’s J/Secure2.0 authentication platform for card-not-present transactions for its merchants in the U.K. The service will add...