Japan's largest credit card company, Rakuten Card, is aiming to almost double its annual operating profit to 100 billion yen ($663.7 million) in the medium term and sees opportunity in expanding into ...

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Rakuten Card's Chief Executive Officer, Koichi Nakamura, has identified a significant opportunity within Japan's B2B payment sphere. Despite the country's rapidly digitizing financial services, only a ...

Rakuten Card has made notable strides in recent years, issuing over 30 million credit cards and achieving an operating profit of 62.1 billion yen in 2024, representing a more than 20% increase ...

Amazon Japan and other local e-commerce players continue to compete aggressively. Rakuten needs to write off more goodwill for its overseas investment. Rakuten Card and its mobile payment will see ...

Currently, Rakuten Card has the top share in transaction value, and Rakuten Pay is the second largest player in the QR code transaction market in Japan, following Softbank (LY)’s PayPay.