JCB is working with Union Bank to launch the Breeze Center JCB Card with the J/Speedy contactless payment program in Taiwan. This is the first card with J/Speedy in the world. JCB says it will continue promoting this contactless program in Taiwan and the rest of Asia.

J/Speedy is JCB’s global standard-based (ISO/IEC 14443) contactless payment solution developed by sharing Visa Asia Pacific’s contactless specification for common merchant acceptance. In Japan, JCB also rolled out the QUICPay(TM) contactless payment product in April 2005 based on Sony’s FeliCa chip specification, which is widely employed for contactless payment solutions such as public transportation fare systems and mobile phone applications in Japan.

Union Bank has been issuing JCB cards and acquiring JCB card acceptance locations in Taiwan since 2002, and started issuing the Breeze Center JCB Card with the country’s most popular shopping mall in 2002.