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- <text id=90TT1094>
- <title>
- Apr. 30, 1990: Business Notes:Consumer Credit
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 77
- Business Notes
- CONSUMER CREDIT
- They Don't Take Visa
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Question: What new Japanese import will actually fatten
- American wallets and drain bank accounts at the same time?
- Answer: The JCB card. Japan's largest credit-card company,
- which has issued 70 million of the cards in its domestic
- market, plans to start signing up U.S. consumers this summer.
- Some 1.4 million merchants around the world accept the card.
- So far, 150,000 American merchants have agreed to allow JCB
- charges, a number the company hopes to double this year. The
- JCB card (projected annual fee: $30 or more) functions mainly
- as a charge card, meaning that a customer's balance is due
- each month.
- </p>
- <p> The arrival of JCB, which stands for Japan Credit Bureau,
- should provoke new rivalries in an already contentious
- industry. Said Richard Woods, a spokesman for MasterCard
- International: "We think JCB is going to be one of the major
- competitive threats of the '90s."
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- </body>
- </article>
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