thumb|right|Pre-2012 Edy logo Edy, provided by Rakuten, Inc. in Japan is a prepaid rechargeable contactless smart card. While the name derives from euro, dollar, and yen, it works with yen only.
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thumb|right|Pre-2012 Edy logo Edy, provided by Rakuten, Inc. in Japan is a prepaid rechargeable contactless smart card. While the name derives from euro, dollar, and yen, it works with yen only.
== History == Edy was launched on January 18, 2001, by BitWallet, with financing primarily from Sony, in addition to then other companies, including NTT Docomo and the Sumitomo Group.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.