Travelex Japan (トラベレックスジャパン)

Wiki route

This entry sits under payment-firms INDEX (its domain route). Read it against Western Union Japan and SBI Remit for peer / contrast (remittance / money-movement), and against the FSA plus the funds-transfer vs prepaid boundary for the supervisory / system boundary.

TL;DR

Travelex Japan Co., Ltd. is a retail-network operator specializing in foreign-currency exchange and foreign-currency home delivery, and an FSA-registered funds-transfer operator (funds-transfer operator under the Payment Services Act; 関東財務局長 第00001号). Its head office is in Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Under the Payment Services Act it also issues an overseas-dedicated prepaid card (Mastercard Travelex Money Card). It is the Japan base of the Travelex global FX / travel-money network, holding the touchpoint between airport / urban foreign-currency exchange and international money transfer.

1. License / group boundary

The following table is scoped to public primary sources (travelex.co.jp, fsa.go.jp). It restates licence / structure / product boundaries from those materials and does not invent market share, ranking, or unstated numerical claims. ^↗

2. Operating model

• Provides storefront / physical-network FX / remittance-adjacent services.
• Differs from app-first fintech in that airport / retail-counter distribution matters.
• A useful comparator for Western Union / SBI Remit and for the digital-first Wise.

3. Why this page matters

Travelex is not merely an exchange shop; as a funds-transfer operator it is included in Japan’s money-movement map. It fixes an example of exchange (FX retail) and funds-transfer business (remittance / prepaid issuance) co-residing in a single entity, and provides an anchor for the storefront-distribution model.

Related

• payment-firms INDEX
• Western Union Japan
• SBI Remit
• Wise Payments Japan
• funds-transfer vs prepaid boundary
• FinWiki index

Sources

• Travelex Japan company overview: https://www.travelex.co.jp/about-us
• Travelex Japan: 特定商取引法に基づく表記: https://www.travelex.co.jp/legal/tokuteishotorihiki
• 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 funds-transfer business (関東財務局長 第00001号), the foreign-currency exchange business, and the Mastercard prepaid-card issuance are public facts.