Japanese streaming service unext drops mastercard and visa payment - Kotaku In Action 2

Japanese streaming service unext drops mastercard and visa payment (www.sankakucomplex.com)

posted 152 days ago by evilplushie 152 days ago by evilplushie +44 / -1

U-NEXT Streaming Service Drops Visa & Mastercard Payments for Adult Content

Japanese streaming service U-NEXT has announced that it has 'temporarily suspended' the use of Visa and Mastercard credit card payments for adult content, making it the latest company offering adult content to drop the Western credit cards."Thank you for u...

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– ernsithe 6 points 152 days ago +6 / -0

JCB USA stopped issuing JCB cards in the American market on January 8, 2018, and closed all current consumer credit card accounts on April 30, 2018
Foreign JCB cards continue to work through the Discover network partnership.

I wonder what the history behind the pull-out was. Legislative or just too far behind Visa/MC to make it worthwhile.

Edit: Apparently AmEx and Discover still have reciprocal agreements with JCB. Anywhere that takes JCB should accept AmEx (https://www.americanexpress.com/jp/services/coverage/). Don't know how well that plays with online retailers.

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– DistilledLife 4 points 152 days ago +4 / -0

I wonder what the history behind the pull-out was. Legislative or just too far behind Visa/MC to make it worthwhile.

I've been trying to piece together a timeline, but the closest piece of Federal legislation passed before closing all consumer CC accounts was the FOSTA-SESTA bill but it could be unrelated. As for the "halt issuing new cards", no clue still.

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