{"id":706723,"date":"2026-07-23T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706723\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:12:10","slug":"japans-paypay-seven-i-to-combine-loyalty-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706723\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s PayPay, Seven &#038; i to combine loyalty programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/business-deals\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business deals<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Total 100m users challenge Rakuten and NTT Docomo in domestic market<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260723 Seven and I and Paypay\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Seven &amp; i Holdings, parent of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, is in talks to receive an investment from SoftBank Corp. and its affiliate PayPay. (Nikkei montage)<\/p>\n<p>Nikkei staff writers<\/p>\n<p>July 23, 2026 11:41 JST<\/p>\n<p>Updated on July 23, 2026 14:12 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; SoftBank Group-backed PayPay, the largest smartphone payment service in Japan, and Seven &amp; i Holdings are in final negotiations to integrate their customer data, Nikkei learned Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business deals Total 100m users challenge Rakuten and NTT Docomo in domestic market Seven &amp; i Holdings, parent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[234422,2140,47045,84911,2306,37407,28771,48583,86,47,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-combine","tag-i","tag-japans","tag-loyalty","tag-mobile","tag-paypay","tag-programs","tag-seven","tag-technology","tag-top-stories","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}