Tokyo, Japan / Malta — JCB International Co., Ltd. (JCBI), the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., and Truevo Payments Ltd (Truevo), a European financial institution that offers Mobile POS, e-commerce and other transactional services, are proud to announce the signing of a license agreement for JCB Card POS acquiring on the network of Truevo on-line and face-to-face POS terminals.
With this agreement in place, JCB and Truevo will target to go live in early 2018.
The partnership will give both JCB and Truevo additional opportunities to their customer base. JCB will be able to expand the card acceptance, to increase brand awareness presence in market and provide its cardmembers with more convenience. Truevo will have an unmissable chance to enlarge its network, allowing retailers to potentially attract JCB’s 106 million worldwide cardmember base to its business and extending JCB services to both on-line and physical POS terminals.
JCBI and Truevo will join efforts in the e-commerce environment, ensuring the highest security standards are met and further partner to guarantee that J/Secure is utilized as the payer authentication service.
Mr. Tsuyoshi Notani, Managing Director of JCB International (Europe) Ltd., said about the partnership: “We are very glad to sign this license agreement with Truevo, as it’s a great chance to provide JCB cardmembers with greater freedom to spend in more e-commerce and physical retailers. Taking into account the huge growth of e-commerce shopping and international travel, we are always looking for new partners with payment solutions that can offer a wider variety of connections with merchants, so it’s a pleasure for us to provide European merchants with the chance to engage with JCB cardmembers. JCB steadily believes this partnership will contribute to the growth and the development of its business, strongly enhancing JCB Card acceptance and visibility”.
Mr. Steve Grech, CEO of Truevo Payments, stated: “Truevo happily welcomes the partnership with JCB as a great step forward to better meet its customers’ demand and to enable more merchants to accept JCB Cards. The core of our business is connecting merchants with consumers and simplifying payments, so we are proud to join JCB and to offer its payment solutions to our clients; JCB acceptance will attract customers, increase sales and improve satisfaction. Thanks to this agreement, we’ll be able to offer significant advantages and to improve the quality of services provided”.