Japan credit purchase and card operator registry index
ConfidenceLikelyUpdated2026-07-30Review by2026-11-21Sources5Machine-translatedOriginal (JA)
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Overview
METI’s Installment Sales Act public lists are the control surface for Japanese credit-card issuing, shopping credit, individual installment credit, and merchant-contracting / card-number handling. As of 2026-04 month-end, METI lists 241 registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediaries, 0 small comprehensive credit purchase intermediaries, 138 registered individual credit purchase intermediaries, and 275 registered credit-card-number handling contract concluding operators.
Read this page with Japan card acquiring stack and funds-transfer registry to separate card credit, merchant acquiring, PSP operations, and wallet / transfer products. The official METI PDFs remain the row-level source of truth.
Registry Snapshot
The following table is scoped to public primary sources (meti.go.jp). It restates licence / structure / product boundaries from those materials and does not invent market share, ranking, or unstated numerical claims. ↗
| Registry | As-of date | Count | Wiki treatment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 登録包括信用購入あっせん業者 | 2026-04 month-end | 241 | Route material card issuers / credit companies; keep regional long tail in METI PDFs. |
| 登録少額包括信用購入あっせん業者 | 2026-04 month-end | 0 | No standalone wiki action. |
| 登録個別信用購入あっせん業者 | 2026-04 month-end | 138 | Promote only material installment-credit, auto-finance, BNPL, or bank-group credit operators. |
| クレジットカード番号等取扱契約締結事業者 | 2026-04 month-end | 275 | Use for acquirers, merchant PSPs, and card-number handling responsibility. |
Boundary
The following table is scoped to public primary sources (meti.go.jp). It restates licence / structure / product boundaries from those materials and does not invent market share, ranking, or unstated numerical claims. ↗
| Boundary | Treatment |
|---|---|
| Comprehensive credit purchase intermediary | Card / revolving / credit purchase operator route; often overlaps with card issuer pages. |
| Individual credit purchase intermediary | Shopping credit, auto finance, education / medical credit, and other sales-finance routes. |
| Credit-card-number handling contract concluding operator | Merchant-contracting and card-data-control route; essential for PSP / acquiring analysis. |
| Funds-transfer operator | Use FSA registration and funds-transfer-service-providers-japan-index. |
| Prepaid issuer | Use FSA prepaid registration and prepaid-payment-instrument-issuers-japan-index. |
Existing Material Wiki Routes
The following table is scoped to public primary sources (meti.go.jp). It restates licence / structure / product boundaries from those materials and does not invent market share, ranking, or unstated numerical claims. ↗
| Segment | Routes | Why these are standalone |
|---|---|---|
| Megabank / bank-group card issuers | smbc-card, mufg-nicos, jcb, mitsubishi-ufj-trust-bank | Issuing / acquiring, bank group strategy, card-network or trust-bank adjacency. |
| Retail / ecosystem card issuers | rakuten-card, paypay-card, aeon-financial-service, epos-card, seven-card-service, ucs-card, life-card, pocket-card | Consumer credit, loyalty, retail finance, and payment-data loops. |
| Consumer finance / installment | smbc-consumer-finance, acom, aiful, orico, jaccs, aplus, shinsei-financial, toyota-finance | Lending / guarantee / installment-credit operating companies. |
| Merchant PSP / acquiring | gmo-payment-gateway, gmo-epsilon, sb-payment-service, dg-financial-technology, netstars | Merchant onboarding, gateway, card-number handling, and settlement-risk infrastructure. |
| Wallet / embedded finance | recruit-mufg-business, jal-payment-port, paypay, merpay, au-payment | Wallets often combine prepaid, transfer, merchant payment, and card-linked rails. |
Analysis Lens
For FinWiki, the most important use of the METI lists is not “who appears in the PDF” but “what role the operator plays in the credit and acquiring stack.”
- Card issuers own consumer credit and repayment behavior.
- Individual-credit operators connect merchants, consumers, and product financing.
- Merchant-contracting operators decide which merchants can accept cards and carry onboarding / monitoring duties.
- PSPs may be technically central even when the final merchant-contracting authority belongs to another registered acquirer.
- Some operators sit in multiple lists, so one company page explains the boundary instead of duplicating pages per license.
Related
- INDEX
- card-acquiring-japan-stack
- psp-merchant-settlement-risk
- funds-transfer-service-providers-japan-index
- prepaid-payment-instrument-issuers-japan-index
- missing-financial-institutions-backlog
- INDEX
- FinWiki index
Sources
- METI credit transaction policy page: https://www.meti.go.jp/policy/economy/consumer/credit/index.html
- METI registered operator lists: https://www.meti.go.jp/policy/economy/consumer/credit/115tourokujigyousyaitiran.html
- METI registered comprehensive credit purchase intermediaries PDF: https://www.meti.go.jp/policy/economy/consumer/credit/tourokuhoukatsuichiran.pdf
- METI registered individual credit purchase intermediaries PDF: https://www.meti.go.jp/policy/economy/consumer/credit/tourokukobetsuichiran.pdf
- METI credit-card-number handling contract concluding operators PDF: https://www.meti.go.jp/policy/economy/consumer/credit/teiketsuichiran.pdf
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