Payment Navi / ペイメントナビ

Payment Navi Japan, the portal ペイメントナビ at paymentnavi.com, is run by TI Planning and has covered Japanese payments since roughly 2010. It is written in Japanese for people in payments, cards and retail technology.

Sections The site is split into navigators: payment news, a card-security navigator built around PCI DSS, a card navigator, retail and commerce, finance information and a cashless guide. Besides news it publishes seminar announcements and paid reports.

Recent topics October 2026 headlines included Paidy moving into gaming with buy-now-pay-later, AI commerce meeting payment integration, an unattended checkout store opening at Shinagawa Station, emoji-based authentication strengthening passkeys, and coverage of the Booking.com Innovation Summit.

Why payments people read it Japan has its own card schemes, convenience-store payments and QR wallets, and foreign coverage rarely goes deep. This is where a merchant or PSP can see how cashless adoption, unattended retail and security rules such as PCI DSS are discussed domestically, in the original language.