La Banque Postale has joined forces with JCB, the Japan-based card issuer and acquirer and world funds model, in an effort to facilitate fee transactions for JCB cardmembers all through France.

By partnering with La Banque Postale, JCB can now provide a variety of advantages to its card members. La Banque Postale has a robust bodily presence throughout France, with 17,000 factors of contact together with 7,000 put up workplaces, and an in depth community of 6,000 ATMs.

This long-term collaboration will probably be rolled out in phases, with the primary of those seeing La Banque Postale’s ATMs made obtainable to JCB cardmembers. Within the second section, JCB cardmembers will be capable of pay for his or her purchases in France instantly on the terminals of outlets affiliated with La Banque Postale. The ultimate section can even see extra acceptance at on-line places as a part of JCB’s rising world service provider community.

Jean-Marc Vedrune, director of digital fee at La Banque Postale, defined: “This strategic partnership with JCB, represents a big step ahead in facilitating fee transactions particularly for worldwide vacationers and professionals travelling to France.

“With a historical past of involvement in varied worldwide fee initiatives, each when it comes to transfers and the acceptance of overseas playing cards in our community, it exhibits our joint dedication to assembly the wants of our clients, with JCB being the perfect associate for us to supply seamless and safe transactions.”

Bolstering worldwide funds

Ray Shinzawa, managing director of JCB Worldwide (Europe) Ltd, additionally commented: “With increasingly JCB cardmembers planning their subsequent trip in Europe, France stays a well-liked vacation spot for travellers trying to profit from their time overseas – whether or not for leisure or enterprise functions. That is why we’re excited to be partnering with La Banque Postale, considered one of France’s main monetary organisations, to supply our over 156 million cardmembers much more methods to spend simply and conveniently all through France.”

As a member of the European Funds Initiative (EPI) and dedicated to worldwide funds, La Banque Postale stays a significant participant on the funds entrance.

This partnership with JCB is according to the rising want for overseas vacationers to have the ability to use their bank cards to make funds in France.

For JCB, making certain that cardmembers have straightforward and expanded entry to their most popular fee selection is a excessive precedence. It defined that France is a key market, and the collaboration with La Banque Postale is a vital pillar in JCB’s technique to extend its acceptance throughout Europe.