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    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      LexJune Yoon
      The Lex Newsletter: Mikitani should admit Rakuten Mobile has flopped Premium content

      Priority should be to shore up cash and improve group’s credit rating, not pump capital into its weakest link

      Rakuten chief Hiroshi Mikitani
    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Lex
      Rakuten Bank: parent’s woes detract from Japan’s largest listing in five years Premium content

      Shares in the lender rose as much as 40 per cent on its debut, raising about $620mn

    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Rakuten Bank shares surge in Japan’s biggest IPO since 2018

      While banking business is profitable, investors are concerned about losses at parent company’s mobile unit

      Rakuten chief Hiroshi Mikitani
    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      LexMizuho Financial Group Inc
      Mizuho/Rakuten: pricey deal should help with digital banking push Premium content

      Japanese lender’s rivals are just as behind in the digital shift, with locals mostly sticking to cash rather than online banking

      The Mizuho Bank logo
    • Tuesday, 30 August, 2022
      News in-depth
      Rakuten founder embroiled in scandal as investors pile on pressure

      Hiroshi Mikitani’s group is bleeding cash as he tries to enlist shareholders to back online bank IPO

      Hiroshi Mikitani
    • Thursday, 5 August, 2021
      Lex
      Rakuten/1&1: German wireless deal is a lifeline Premium content

      Move into virtual networks represents push to sign different segment of customers

      Hiroshi Mikitani, chief executive of Rakuten
    • Sunday, 16 May, 2021
      FT SeriesFuture of retail
      How the pandemic raised the stakes for Japanese retailers

      A country slow to embrace ecommerce is under pressure to improve online and physical outlets

    • Monday, 15 March, 2021
      Lex
      Rakuten: Japan Post tie-in threatens Amazon’s online dominance Premium content

      The company’s new investors would also be useful as business partners

      A Rakuten Mobile store
    • Friday, 12 March, 2021
      Rakuten to raise $2.2bn in deal with Japan Post, Tencent and Walmart

      Japanese ecommerce group says tie-up will help fight off threat from Silicon Valley

      A Rekuten logo outside a store
    • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
      Japanese business & finance
      SoftBank accuses ex-employee of leaking 5G trade secrets to rival

      Competitor Rakuten confirms arrest but says it did not tap worker for information

    • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
      Special ReportThe Future of Telecommunications
      Rakuten pioneers new retail route into telecoms

      The Japanese ecommerce group hopes to succeed where other groups in the sector have failed by building and running its own mobile phone network

    • Monday, 16 November, 2020
      Walmart Inc
      Walmart sells majority stake in Japanese supermarket chain

      KKR and Rakuten to acquire 85% of Seiyu in deal valuing retailer at $1.6bn

    • Wednesday, 16 September, 2020
      Telefonica SA
      Telefónica teams up with Rakuten in search of 5G networks alternative

      Move to bolster ‘open RAN’ technology will strengthen smaller suppliers competing with Huawei and Ericsson

      Telefónica expects that at least half the sites it upgrades between 2022 and 2025 will use alternative telecoms technology
    • Monday, 27 July, 2020
      News in-depthTelecoms
      Telecoms networks look to fix Huawei problem with open source software

      OpenRAN movement promises to open up market by unbundling 5G software and hardware

    • Monday, 26 August, 2019
      News in-depthSport
      Gerard Piqué sets new goals with revamped Davis Cup

      Efforts by footballer’s investment group to shake up century-old flagship men’s event divide tennis

      Barcelona defender Gerard Pique takes a selfie with a fan while watching Serbia's Novak Djokovic play Austria's Dominic Thiem during their round robin stage men's singles match on day one of the ATP World Tour Finals tennis tournament in London on November 13, 2016. (Photo by GLYN KIRK / AFP)
    • Friday, 9 August, 2019
      Lex
      Rakuten/Lyft: ride failing Premium content

      With Amazon providing stiff competition, the Japanese online retailer should focus on its core business

      Chief executive Hiroshi Mikitani has been pursuing a muddled strategy, as shown by Rakuten's losing bet on Lyft
    • Monday, 15 July, 2019
      Nomura Holdings Inc
      Japan’s online brokerages target Nomura’s retail business

      Rakuten and kabu.com among those planning a customer push linked to country’s pension crisis

      Nomura securities branch locates at Tokyo's busy district of Shinjuku, Japan, on Thursday, Apr. 23, 2009.  Nomura Holdings Inc.  is expected to report a roughly 700 billion yen group net loss for the year ended March 31, the largest loss in the financial giant's history,  a news reported on Wednesday.    Photographer: Kimimasa Mayama/Bloomberg News
    • Tuesday, 2 July, 2019
      LexMobile payments
      Japan payment systems: paper qualifications Premium content

      Trying to wean people off cash is a huge challenge

      None of the mobile payments companies has managed to gain significant scale in Japan
    • Sunday, 24 June, 2018
      News in-depthUS & Canadian companies
      Amazon’s scale in Japan challenges rivals and regulators

      Country has become its third biggest market, forcing Rakuten to try to adapt

      Hiroshi Mikitani and Jeff Bezos
    • Tuesday, 29 May, 2018
      Fintech
      Rakuten invests in UK payments group Azimo

      Move reflects fast-growing market for challengers to traditional way of sending money

      A woman pushing a pram walks in front of a Rakuten Cafe store in Tokyo...A woman pushing a pram walks in front of a Rakuten Cafe store at a shopping district in Tokyo August 4, 2014. Japan's largest e-commerce company Rakuten Inc posted a 9.9 percent decrease in second quarter operating profit, dragged lower by weaker trading volumes on its Internet finance platform. REUTERS/Yuya Shino (JAPAN - Tags: BUSINESS) - RTR4154H
    • Thursday, 15 March, 2018
      US & Canadian companies
      Competition watchdog raids Amazon’s Tokyo headquarters

      Action is Japan’s second in two years as US ecommerce group’s dominance grows

      File photo dated 25/11/15 of an Amazon sign. Amazon has added live and on-demand TV channels to its Prime subscription service in the UK for the first time. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 23, 2017. Customers are now able to subscribe to Amazon Channels including Eurosport Player, Discovery and on-demand reality TV channel hayu on a monthly basis, with prices starting at £1.49 a month. See PA story TECHNOLOGY Amazon. Photo credit should read: Nick Ansell/PA Wire
    • Friday, 26 January, 2018
      US & Canadian companies
      Walmart partners with Japanese etailer Rakuten to take on Amazon 

      US group targets Japan’s online grocery market in deal that also sees it launch ebooks

      A woman pushing a pram walks in front of a Rakuten Cafe store in Tokyo...A woman pushing a pram walks in front of a Rakuten Cafe store at a shopping district in Tokyo August 4, 2014. Japan's largest e-commerce company Rakuten Inc posted a 9.9 percent decrease in second quarter operating profit, dragged lower by weaker trading volumes on its Internet finance platform. REUTERS/Yuya Shino (JAPAN - Tags: BUSINESS) - RTR4154H
    • Friday, 26 January, 2018
      US & Canadian companies
      Walmart takes on Amazon’s e-book dominance with Japanese tie-up
    • Monday, 22 January, 2018
      European companies
      Cabify owner Maxi Mobility raises funds to fend off rivals

      Group aims to bolster its ride-hailing app as competition in sector intensifies

      Cabify PR shots
    • Monday, 18 December, 2017
      Retail & Consumer industry
      The Japanese company that ordered staff to speak English

      How ‘Englishnization’ changed Rakuten

      Work and Careers Takashi Katsuragi Katsuragi-san the General Manager of the Education Business Project Promotion Section, Rakuten from PR
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