Rakuten Securities, Inc. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo. President: Yuji Kusunoki), a consolidated subsidiary of Rakuten Group, Inc. (hereinafter “Rakuten Group”), announces its consolidated financial reports (based on J-GAAP) for the three months ended March 31, 2024 ..read more

Tokyo, April 19, 2024 – Rakuten Group, Inc. today announced a new partnership with Accor, a leading hospitality group, in which Rakuten Points – Rakuten’s flagship loyalty points program – can be mutually exchanged with points from Accor’s loyalty program, “ALL - Accor Live Limitless”*1 ..read more

Tokyo, April 17, 2024 – Rakuten Group Inc. today announced that its travel reservation service Rakuten Travel, a leading online travel agency in Japan, has begun offering its car rental reservation service for visitors to Japan in multiple languages starting today. The service now supports customers using English, Korean and Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), in addition to Japanese ..read more

Tokyo, April 16, 2024 - Rakuten Bank, Ltd. and Rakuten Securities, Inc. today announced that Money Bridge, a service connecting customers’ Rakuten Bank and Rakuten Securities accounts, has surpassed 5 million accounts as of April 16, 2024 ..read more

Tokyo, April 16, 2024 - Rakuten Securities, Inc. today announced that its general securities accounts have surpassed 11 million, the largest number*1 of non-consolidated securities accounts among Japanese securities companies (based on disclosed information), as of April 2024. The milestone signifies the fastest increase in new accounts since the company’s founding, with 1 million accounts opened since reaching the 10 million mark in December 2023 ..read more

Rakuten Group, Inc. (the “Company”) announces that the Board of Directors resolved today to issue the following Share Acquisition Rights as share options to Directors of the Company and Executive Officers and employees of the Company’s subsidiaries ..read more

Rakuten Group, Inc. (the “Company”) announces that the Board of Directors resolved today to issue the following Share Acquisition Rights as share options to Directors of the Company who serve concurrently as Executive Officers of the Company ..read more

Singapore, April 11, 2024 – Rakuten Group, Inc. today announced that its travel reservation service Rakuten Travel, a leading online travel agency in Japan, hosted its first-ever events for everyday consumers and influencers in Singapore, aiming to attract more Singaporeans to travel to Japan. This initiative aims to capitalize on the growing popularity of Japan as a travel destination, with the number of visitors from Singapore hitting a record high of 591,000 in 2023 – a 20% increase compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization ..read more

Tokyo & Toronto – April 11, 2024 – Rakuten Kobo introduces booklovers to its first-ever colour E Ink eReaders with the new Kobo Libra Colour and Kobo Clara Colour, turning the page on the exclusively black and white digital reading experience Kobo fans already know and love ..read more

Tokyo & San Francisco, April 11, 2024 – Rakuten Viber, a global leader in private and secure messaging and calls, has leveraged the technology of OpenAI to launch a conversation-summarizing AI feature for unread messages in group chats. Developed to meet the needs of millions of busy users, this cutting-edge solution offers a seamless and rapid way to distill essential information from up to 100 unread messages in a chat into a concise summary ..read more