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Mcommerce environment in Japan looks bright for mobile payments

John Montgallo
NTT Docomo qr code japan

MasterCard’s latest index has called the country a promising marketplace. The most recent results of the MasterCard Mobile Payments Readiness Index have shown that Japan is one of the countries that will provide the most positive mcommerce environment for these transactions. In fact, among 34 analyzed countries, Japan held the sixth spot from the top. The analysis of the countries is designed to determine their readiness based on their overall mcommerce marketplace, and how ideal they would be for mobile payments to be adopted. It focused on three types of…

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MasterCard releases latest results of its Mobile Payments Readiness Index

John Montgallo
Mobile Commerce

The credit card giant has published the findings of its analysis of 34 countries. MasterCard Worldwide has now revealed the results of its international analysis that involved 34 countries and how prepared they are to use three different forms of technology on their smartphones, presented in the MasterCard Mobile Payments Readiness Index (MPRI). The MPRI includes an examination of how ready the various markets are for contactless point of sale, m-commerce, and person-to-person transactions using their mobile devices. What it determined was that although there were no two markets alike,…

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