Smart Card Mobile: JCB to Launch Wireless 'Mobile Offica' Corporate Solution

From Japan Corporate News (press release), Japan ... will itself be releasing i-mode FeliCa Service for mobile wallet applications, including train pass and e-money, on four i-mode smart-card handset models, in ...

JCB is an international credit card brand and the largest card issuer/acquirer in Japan. JCB launched its card business in Japan in 1961 and began expanding overseas in 1981. Its merchant network includes 11.42 million merchants and spans 189 countries and territories. JCB cards are now issued in 18 countries and territories, with 49.6 million cardmembers. As part of its international growth strategy, JCB has formed alliances with more than 320 leading banks and financial institutions globally to increase merchant coverage and cardmember base. JCB's corporate philosophy of "Service from the heart", a commitment to responsive, high-quality service, continues to guide it as it creates the future together with its customers, merchants and partners. For further information, please visit the JCB International homepage at http://www.jcbinternational.com. JCB designed its own credit application for smart cards, which called J/Smart. J/Smart is compliant with EMV de-facto standards for smart card credit and debit transactions, and works on any common operating systems. The J/Smart application is standardized to properly meet the precise needs of our partners. DualPlus is JCB's dual interface smart card. This is a multifunction card with a single chip and two interfaces, contact and contactless, as well as a linkage function. The DualPlus card not only costs less to issue than JCB's hybrid smart card, which incorporates two separate chips, but the linkage allows information sharing between contact and contactless functions.