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UK Fintech: The Good & Referral Codes

Since we enjoy trying out different FinTech solutions, we created a list solutions, what we liked and referrals which are available. Revolut We like Revolut for: The FX rates: Good spread. The functionality to auto exchange at a certain rate (limit order): Great for volatile markets (aka Brexit). Multi-Currency: Great for those who travel a lot. Virtual Cards: Great for online purchases and issuing cards quickly. Code: tomohi529!G10D21 Get: £10

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Japanese App Based Consumer Payments: What we would like to see.

What we would like to see from Japanese App Based Consumer Payment Systems We recently published a piece on a List of Japanese App Based Consumer Payment Systems. We thought it would be good to write about what’s good about the apps and what could be improved. PayPay: Good: For retailers, the upfront cost of setting up PayPay is free (for a few years). For retailers, Alipay is integrated to the PayPay payment rail.

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PayPay: Japanese App Based Consumer Payments

We take a look into PayPay a Japanese App Based Consumer Payment System. On 4th Deccember 2018 PayPay was released. Their bold marketing campaign received attention as 20% cashback up to the sum of 10billion JPY for all transactions (up to 50,000 JPY per user) could be received and lottery prize of up to 100,000 JPY at odds of 40:1 for PayPay User, 20:1 for Yahoo Premier User, 10:1 Softbank or YMobile user, created a buzz around Tech Savvy Consumers.

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List of Japanese App Based Consumer Payment Systems:

We take a look into the Japanese App Based Consumer Payment Systems. PayPay (Yahoo, Softbank, PayTM) Line Pay (Line) Rakuten Pay (Rakuten) Origami (Origami) Amazon Pay (Amazon, online) Merpay (Mercari, ) PixivPay Au Pay (Au) D barai (Docomo) &Pay (MTI) Pring (MetaApps Inc) Pay ID (Base Inc) PayB (Billing System) Yoka! Pay (Fukuoka Bank) HamaPay (Yokohama Bank) MoneyTap (Ripple) Lawson Pay (Lawson) Famipay (Famipay) 7Pay (7 Eleven) Wechat Alipay Hoshikawa-san from Crowdcast has a very good map of payment players in Japan: https://medium.

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