Credit card market in Japan

Credit card issuers, etc

1. General overview
   1. Current status of the credit card market
   2. Transition of market size related indexes
   3. Future prospects
   4. Investment & alliances among the credit card issuing companies
2. Characteristics of the credit card companies by type of business and parent organization, and their business development
   1. Bank-affiliated credit card companies
   2. Credit sales companies
   3. Distributor-affiliated credit card companies
   4. Other credit card companies
3. Business performance of the credit card issuing companies
   1. Operating profit
   2. Ordinary profit
   3. Net profit for the year
   4. Active number of card holders
   5. Turnover (shopping plus cashing)
   6. Turnover (shopping)
   7. Turnover per member (shopping)
   8. Turnover (cashing)
   9. Balance of revolving, divided payment
   10. Balance of cashing
   11. Balance of cashing per member
   12. Balance of reserve for doubtful accounts
   13. Balance of reserves for possible loss caused by the requests for refunding money paid in excess
   14. Balance of reserves for the point system
   15. Ratio of operating profit earned by credit card business
   16. Number of card member stores
   17. Number of own ATM, CD terminals
   18. Number of issued ETC cards
   19. Trends of products and services
4. Trend of products and services
   1. Card type, function, cost (membership fee, service charge)
   2. Benefits, services
   3. Status of Non-contact type IC card service introduction
   4. Trend of the membership communication strategy
5. Individual profiles, business status and strategies of the leading credit card issuing companies (24 firms)Individual profiles, business status and strategies of the leading credit card issuing companies (25 firms)