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Merpay

Confidence: Likely Updated 2026-06-24 Review by 2026-12-24 Sources 3 Machine-translated Original (JA)
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Wiki route

This entry sits under payment-firms INDEX. Read it with payments index for adjacent context and Funds transfer vs prepaid boundary in Japan for the broader system boundary.

TL;DR

Merpay is the payment and credit operating company of Mercari HD (Mercari, Inc.). Its official About page shows registrations including funds transfer, prepaid payment instruments, comprehensive credit-purchase intermediation, and lending, so it needs a standalone page as the connection point between marketplace balance, wallet, and credit. ^[verified-2026-06-24]

1. Entity / license boundary

ItemReading
Legal entityMerpay, Inc.
Group[[payment-firms/mercari-hd
Main lanesMerpay wallet, Mercari sales-balance payment, funds transfer, credit / lending adjacency
FSA registry routeFSA funds-transfer list: Kanto Local Finance Bureau Director 第00057号, Merpay, Inc. ^[verified-2026-06-24]
Company-profile registrationsThe official About page lists funds transfer, prepaid instruments, card-number merchant-contracting, comprehensive credit-purchase intermediation, lending, and electronic payment agency registrations. ^[verified-2026-06-24]

2. Business role

  • Converts Mercari’s marketplace balance and user identity into payment and credit usage: Mercari’s funds-settlement disclosure describes charging Merpay balance from sales proceeds, bank accounts, and ATM channels, plus using that balance for Mercari purchases and shop payments. ^[verified-2026-06-24]
  • Bridges C2C marketplace data, code payment, deferred payment, and bank-account withdrawal; the official disclosure frames Merpay as a Type II funds-transfer provider and a third-party prepaid-instrument issuer, so the prepaid / funds-transfer boundary is core to this page. ^[verified-2026-06-24]
  • Credit and lending adjacency sits beside the wallet rather than inside it: Merpay’s About page separately discloses comprehensive credit-purchase intermediation, certified comprehensive credit-purchase intermediation, lending, and card-number merchant-contracting registrations. ^[verified-2026-06-24]
  • A comparator against PayPay, Rakuten Pay, au PAY, and d払い — also surfaced in funds-transfer-service-providers-japan-index.

3. Why this standalone page matters

Mercari’s marketplace business and Merpay’s regulated payment / credit business have different risk and compliance questions. This page keeps the financial-service boundary explicit.

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