Payment services company Worldline<\/a> has partnered with Casio<\/a>, a Japanese-based company, to offer card payments and cashless shopping in Japan, a press release<\/a> says.<\/p>\n Offering this service in Japan will hopefully add to efforts to overturn a more conservative retail landscape there.<\/p>\n The press release said this would help out with the company\u2019s currently cumbersome payment acceptance system.<\/p>\n This will also include Vesca<\/a>, a local provider of payment solutions, and will target a mass market of mainly small business merchants in Japan.<\/p>\n The press release notes that in this partnership Vesca is the technical enabler for acceptance in Japan, while Worldline provides transaction processing and leverages the footprint, scale and technology of its facilities.<\/p>\n The release says this arrangement will benefit Japanese merchants, especially smaller companies, and will help out with streamlining card acceptance. It will also help out with the general challenges of the Japanese ecosystem for card payments, which has been fraught with cash-dominated customers and long onboarding processes.<\/p>\n Shigenori Fujii, senior general manager of the System Business Unit at Casio, added: \u201cWorldline is the leading payments solutions provider in Europe, and it only made sense to collaborate with them as we aim to enlarge our offering for checkout payments and cashless services in Japan. Their professionalism and expertise are unparalleled. We want to develop this partnership further.\u201d<\/p>\n PYMNTS wrote recently that Worldline had completed an acquisition of 80% of Eurobank Merchant Acquiring, which had a 21% share of Greece\u2019s merchant services business.<\/p>\n
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