JCB and its international subsidiary JCB International (JCBI) have announced an alliance with China Construction Bank (CCB) for the issuing of JCB brand credit cards in China.

CCB has started soliciting applications for its new Transformers Credit Card with card designs featuring the robot toys popular in Japan, China, and around the world. In building the partnership and developing the Transformers Credit Card, JCB contributed its expertise in co-brand program development from its knowledge and experience in the credit card business in Japan.

Currently JCB has alliances with eleven partner banks and financial institutions for merchant acquiring, and approximately 80,000 merchants now accept JCB cards for payment. In addition to CCB, Bank of China, Bank of Shanghai, China Everbright Bank, China Merchants Bank, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, China Minsheng Banking Corporation, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Ping An Bank have already launched JCB brand credit cards issuing programs, and the cardmember base is more than 2.5 million in the country.