Payoneer Japan

Wiki route

This entry sits under payment-firms INDEX (its domain route). Read it against Wise Payments Japan and Airwallex Japan for peer / contrast (cross-border business-payment fintech), and against the FSA plus the funds-transfer vs prepaid boundary for the supervisory / system boundary.

TL;DR

ペイオニア・ジャパン株式会社 is the Japan base of the US Payoneer group, an FSA-registered type-II funds-transfer operator (under the Payment Services Act; Director-General of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau 第00045号). Established in 2015 年, headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. It is important in the context of global marketplace payout / freelancer / supplier-payment, handling the receipts and payments of cross-border sellers and businesses that receive income from overseas platforms.

1. License / group boundary

2. Operating model

• Serves global marketplace sellers, freelancers, contractors, and small and medium-sized businesses that receive income from overseas platforms.
• Competes with Wise, PayPal, Airwallex, and bank wires.
• Important in Japan’s outbound / inbound digital-commerce payment flows.

3. Why this page matters

Payoneer tends to be discussed as a global platform, but Japan compliance and product analysis should reference the registered Japan entity (type-II funds-transfer operator). It pins down a typical example of a foreign parent’s Japan subsidiary operating under a funds-transfer license.

Related

• payment-firms INDEX
• Wise Payments Japan
• Airwallex Japan
• PayPal Pte. Ltd. Japan
• funds-transfer vs prepaid boundary
• FinWiki index

Sources

• Payoneer Japan product surface: https://www.payoneer.com/ja/
• Payoneer corporate profile: https://www.payoneer.com/about/
• FSA funds-transfer service provider list (shikin_idou.pdf): https://www.fsa.go.jp/menkyo/menkyoj/shikin_idou.pdf

[!info] Verification status confidence: likely. The type-II funds-transfer business (Director-General of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau 第00045号), establishment in 2015 年, and being a Payoneer Global subsidiary are public facts.