Wallets/rakuten-pay
Rakuten Pay
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Supported standards
This wallet supports the following visual-code standards:
Overview
Rakuten Pay is Rakuten Japanese e-commerce mobile wallet + Rakuten Group Inc TYO: 4755 Japanese e-commerce conglomerate parent + one of Japan's largest e-commerce-anchored mobile wallets via Rakuten Ichiba + Rakuten Pointoポイント Rakuten Points integration + ~40M+ Japanese users 1, Japan report.
History
Oct 27 2016 — Rakuten Pay launched by Rakuten Group as Japanese e-commerce mobile wallet distinctive Japanese e-commerce mobile wallet heritage.
2018 — Rakuten Pay QR code payments rollout across Japanese retail.
Ownership & operator
Operating entity: Rakuten Pay (Rakuten Japanese e-commerce mobile wallet; Rakuten Group parent).
Major shareholders: Rakuten Group Inc (TYO: 4755; Japanese e-commerce conglomerate; Rakuten Ichiba + Rakuten Bank + Rakuten Securities + Rakuten Mobile + Rakuten Card parent; Hiroshi Mikitani founder + CEO).
Regulators: FSA Japan + BoJ.
Technical integration
Rakuten Pay mobile app (iOS + Android; ~40M+ Japanese users) + pay.rakuten.co.jp online + Rakuten Pay integration with Rakuten Card + Rakuten Bank + Rakuten Pointoポイント Rakuten Points loyalty; JP Zengin + JP QR Payment Link + Rakuten Pay QR Japanese e-commerce mobile QR payment scheme.
Implementations & partners
Rakuten Group parent: Rakuten Bank (Rakuten Bank; TYO: 5838; Rakuten Japanese e-commerce digital bank subsidiary) + Rakuten Group (Rakuten Group Inc; TYO: 4755; Japanese e-commerce conglomerate; Rakuten Ichiba + Rakuten Bank + Rakuten Securities + Rakuten Mobile + Rakuten Card parent).
Major Japanese mobile wallet + payments competitors: PayPay (PayPay; SoftBank + LY Corporation JV; Japan's largest mobile wallet by users + transactions; ~65M+ Japanese users) + LINE Pay (LINE Pay; LINE mobile wallet; Japanese operations via LY Corporation) + d払い (d Barai) (d払い d Barai NTT Docomo Japanese telecom mobile wallet; ~56M+ Japanese users) + au PAY (au PAY KDDI Japanese telecom mobile wallet; ~35M+ Japanese users) + MerPay (MerPay Mercari Japanese mobile wallet) + Suica (Suica JR East Japanese transit + retail prepaid card; ~100M+ Japanese Suica cards) + Pasmo (Pasmo Tokyo Metropolitan Japanese transit + retail prepaid card; ~60M+ Japanese Pasmo cards) + MUFG Bank (Mitsubishi UFJ Direct app) (MUFG Bank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group; TYO: 8306 + NYSE: MUFG; Japan's largest commercial bank by assets) + Olive (SMBC + Sumitomo Mitsui Card) (SMBC Olive Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation; TYO: 8316; Japan's #2 commercial bank by assets) + Mizuho Bank (Mizuho Direct + Mizuho Wallet) (Mizuho Bank; TYO: 8411; Japan's #3 commercial bank by assets) + Japan Post Bank (Yucho) (Japan Post Bank Yucho; TYO: 7182; world's largest bank by deposits) + Seven Bank (Seven Bank; TYO: 8410).
Regulators: FSA Japan + BoJ.
Status
Active, Rakuten Japanese e-commerce mobile wallet + Rakuten Group Inc TYO:4755 Japanese e-commerce conglomerate parent + one of Japan's largest e-commerce-anchored mobile wallets via Rakuten Ichiba + Rakuten Pointoポイント Rakuten Points integration + ~40M+ Japanese users 1, 2.
Sources
- 1 Rakuten Pay — official
- 2 Rakuten Pay — Wikipedia
- Japan report In-corpus:
reports/countries/JP-japan.md
Source
Biography extracted from rakuten-pay.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.