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September 30, 2021
GMO DIGITAL Lab K. K.
GMO Payment Gateway, Inc.
GMO DIGITAL Lab K. K. (President & Chief Executive Officer: Yuichi Yamada, hereinafter referred to as GMO Digital Lab) which is a consolidated company of GMO GlobalSign Holdings K.K. (TSE: 3788, President & Chief Executive Officer: Mitsuru Aoyama), and GMO Payment Gateway, Inc. which develops comprehensive payment-related services and financial-related services (TSE: Securities Code 3769, President & Chief Executive Officer: Issei Ainoura, GMO-PG) will provide the "Mobile Gift Certificate Platform byGMO", a service that digitizes paper gift certificates issued by local governments or businesses to Yoro Town, Gifu Prefecture (Mayor: Takashi Ohashi) on October 1, 2021 (Fri).
Yoro Town will be able to digitize the "Yoro Town Premium Gift Certificate" by utilizing the "Mobile Gift Certificate Platform byGMO" (*1). This offer was made possible through a partnership between GMO-PG and Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank, Ltd. (President: Toshiyuki Sakai, hereinafter referred to as Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank). Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank will perform the settlement work of "Yoro Town Premium Gift Certificate" as a designated financial institution of YORO town.
- (*1) The Yoro Town Chamber of Commerce will issue the "Yoro Town Premium Gift Certificate".
【Background and Summary】
The premium gift certificate with premium is a measure aimed at revitalizing local consumption, and the government and municipalities nationwide are cooperating to promote the initiative. Consumers can purchase and use premium gift certificates issued and sold by municipalities nationwide at the municipalities where they live so that they can shop, eat and drink in the area at a better price than before. Nowadays, the movement of people is restricted for the purpose of preventing the spread of the new coronavirus infection, and the need for regional economic revitalization is becoming more important. The market is expected to expand in the future.
GMO DIGITAL Lab and GMO-PG will provide YORO town with a service "Mobile Gift Certificate Platform byGMO" that digitizes paper gift certificates issued by municipalities or businesses. As a result, YORO town will be able to provide "YORO town Premium Gift Certificate" as electronic money within YORO town 's original smartphone app "Yoro Pay". In addition, Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank, which is affiliated with GMO-PG, will settle the "YORO town premium gift certificate" as a designated financial institution by YORO town.
GMO DIGITAL Lab and GMO-PG will continue to support the development of digital gift certificates such as premium gift certificates to help municipalities or businesses to make cashless and business DX.
【"Mobile Gift Certificate Platform byGMO"】
"Mobile Gift Certificate Platform byGMO" is a service that can digitize paper gift certificates issued by municipalities municipalities and businesses, issuing gift certificates on paper involves selling gift certificates mainly face-to-face, and collecting, storing, tabulating, settling, and cashing used gift certificates. In addition, with payment, the demand for digitization of gift certificates is increasing. municipalities and businesses can introduce digitization of gift certificates without the need to develop a system, reduce the workload of issuing paper gift certificates, and realize cashless support.
By digitizing gift certificates, consumers can purchase gift certificates at any time and place 24 hours a day, and can use them in units of 1 yen. If you register to use the digital version of the gift certificate on the dedicated site, complete the charge with a credit card(* 2) on the site, and then read the QR code at the store where the gift certificate can be used, it will be used as payment Is possible.
In addition, at stores where gift certificates can be used, a wide range of customers can be expected to visit and promote their use, and paper-specific management and cashing operations that occur with paper gift certificates can be reduced.
GMO DIGITAL Lab is in charge of system development, and GMO-PG is in charge of sales to municipalities
- (*2) Corresponding payment method will be added in the future.
【GMO DIGITAL Lab K. K.】
Established in 1993, GMO DIGITAL Lab is a company that operates in areas such as Tokyo, Sendai, Niigata, and Shizuoka, centered on the Sapporo head office. Through the provision of digital solution services, we will transform the business model of companies and solve management issues through "digital transformation (DX)".
The main service, the smartphone app production service "GMO Omise App", contributes to solving various issues faced by companies by developing apps suitable for each company (store) in a short period of time and at a low price. In addition to attracting customers and supporting sales promotion at stores, it contributes to the transformation of companies into a digital business model, such as streamlining operations using apps, utilizing customer data, and linking with external systems such as POS. We will solve various problems with the app.
Going forward, GMO DIGITAL Lab will continue to focus on the realization of a convenient, rich and smiling society under the mission of "changing things with IT."
【GMO Payment Gateway】
More than 100,000 merchants, including online businesses such as online shops, NHK, National Tax Agency, and public entity in Tokyo, etc., We provide payment-related services and finance-related services.
Focusing on payment services, we utilize value-added services and finance technologies that contribute to the growth of merchants payment method We provide services that meet financial needs, and our annual consolidated Transaction value exceeds 7.4 trillion yen. (As of the end of June 2021)
As a leading company in the payment industry financial institution, we provide various Provision of payment and finance-related solutions and platforms, infrastructure of payments and so on. We are also promoting global expansion such as the development of payment-related services overseas and strategic investment and financing of cutting-edge FinTech companies overseas.
We will continue to drive new innovations and aim to become a highly safe and convenient payment process infrastructure.