Rakuten wesentlich besser als Rocket

schon in etwa so viel wert wie die gesamte Marktkapitalisierung von Rakuten.

Gartner predicts that by 2020, 25% of customer support and services will be integrated with “virtual assistants”.

The use of the chatbot depends on your business goals. But it looks like e-Commerce will never be the same with the arrival of chatbots.

https://tap2pay.me/chatbots-for-e-commerce/

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...pare-for-targeted-2019-ipo

Die interessante Frage dabei ist:  Wieviel Cash macht Rakuten dabei oder bleiben sie ohne Verkäufe dabei?


Nach meinen Schätzungen hat die Beteiligung von Rakuten an Lyft momentan einen Wert von 2,5 bis 3 Milliarden US-Dollar.
 

EXIT CELEBRATES ITS 18TH BIRTHDAY WITH NEW STICKERS AVAILABLE TO A BILLION VIBER USERS

29.06.2018.

... (automatisch gekürzt) ...

https://www.exitfest.org/en/news/...ers-available-billion-viber-users

 

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2018/...orp%20ir%20fintech  

u.a. so unschlagbar preiswert erfolgen kann

As well as Kansai Electric Power, Rakuten also signed similar agreements with Chubu Electric Power Co and TEPCO Group in March, in a bid to build its mobile network in the most efficient way.
Rakutensaid it will also consider similar tie-ups with other electricity utilities to achieve nationwide service coverage, as it prepares for entry into the MNO business.

https://www.telecomasia.net/content/...lectric-utilities-mno-business


 

halte ich Argumente, dass sich Rakuten daran verheben könnte, für Storfeuer der Konkurrenz.

Rakuten is targeting over 15 million mobile subscribers a small amount compared to KDDI’s 79 million customers. There are about 200 million mobile subscriptions in the country, so that Rakuten targets a share of about the 7%. Nothing to do with a big player but perhaps with a little rising star of hope.
Not an easy task grabbing a seat among MNOs (mobile network operators) in Japan, but the enter of Rakuten brings at least a bit of disruption letting a breath of open air for customers paying higher and higher tarifs in a market often blamed as oligopolistic.

Surely Rakuten is not pointing to become the top MNO in Japan in terms of speed as the Group has not unveiled any plans for Rakuten Mobile Network (its MNO subsidiary) to enter the “5G league”, but it serves The Government’s plans to provide more and clearer competition ground in the market and there’s a lot of room for competition in the price for value segment.

https://eastwind.es/en/...nable-tariffs-from-the-mno-japanese-market/
 

The fast growth of cross-border e-commerce helps overseas brands recognize the huge potential of the Chinese market and leads to partnerships with Chinese cross-border e-commerce operators. Yet results of such partnerships are varied. NetEase Kaola's direct sourcing combined with vendor assistance services that are 100% handled in-house assures peace of mind and maximized benefits for the firm's overseas vendors.

Rakuten, one of the largest e-commerce platforms in Japan, reached an agreement with NetEase Kaola in June 2016, in a move to allow Chinese consumers to conveniently buy a variety of made in Japan products at relatively low prices. Rakuten sells more than 400 popular Japanese brands on NetEase Kaola including apparel, maternal and child care products, affordable luxury items as well as sports and outdoor recreational equipment and accessories, with monthly gross merchandise volume growing (GMV) by 31.6%. The Chinese platform has become Rakuten's largest sales channel in China.

Thanks to the collaboration, sales at Rakuten's flagship store in China quadrupled year on year for 2017.
 

https://en.prnasia.com/releases/apac/...roducts-in-china-210956.shtml  

https://techwireasia.com/2018/06/...sell-made-payments-more-seamless/
 

So viel ich weis hält Rakuten 11,9 % an Lyft. Den Wert schätzt man auf etwa 15 Milliarden. Die Beteiligung ist aktuell also nüchtern betrachtet aktuell etwa 1,8 Mrd $ wert. Bis zum IPO kann sich dies noch massiv ändern. Wenn man bedenkt, dass über bereits mit über 50 Mrd. bewertet ist und kaum was besser macht und hauptsächlich den Verbreitungsvorteil hat, besteht noch viel Luft nach oben.

Was auf jeden Fall interessant ist, ist dass Rakuten mit lächerlichen 11 Mrd. $ immer noch extrem niedrig bewertet ist. Vielleicht wird der IPO von Lyft ein paar Investoren aufwecken...  

auch von Duetschland aus einkaufen.

https://techwireasia.com/2018/06/...sell-made-payments-more-seamless/
 

auf dieser Veröffentlichung  vor ca. 3,5 Jahren. Rajzteb war aber anderereseits an weiteren Runder beteiligt, aber durch weitere Runden hat sich anderersetis auch die Kapitalbasis vergrößert.

Rakuten Leads $530M Investment In Lyft
- Investment in Lyft represents investment in the sharing economy -

TOKYO, March 12, 2015  – Rakuten, Inc. (TOKYO: 4755), today announced that it has agreed to purchase a 11.9% stake in Lyft, the San Francisco-based ride-sharing service provider and sharing economy pioneer. Rakuten is investing $300M as the lead investor in Lyft’s series E investment round.

Hiroshi Mikitani, founder and CEO of Rakuten said: “We have seen the future and this is it. By empowering human connection, the sharing economy is going to fundamentally transform the service industry and benefit society. We believe businesses like Lyft that unlock the latent potential that exists in people and society hold the key to the future.”

https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2015/0312_01.html
 

einmals dabei:

The startup announced Tuesday its recent round of funding has increased from $1 billion of new capital to $1.5 billion.

The additional $500 million in financing included participation from new investors Fidelity Management & Research Company and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. AllianceBernstein, Baillie Gifford, KKR, Janus Henderson Investors, and Rakuten—all of which have invested in Lyft before—also joined this expanded round.

http://fortune.com/2017/12/05/...lion-funding-boost-thanks-to-google/
 

Q2/16: 7846
Q3/16: 7724
Q4/16: 7177
Q1/17: 7832
Q2/17: 7389
Q3/17: 7725
Q4/17: 8149
Q1/18: 8352
Q2/18: 8580











https://secure.irwebcasting.com/20180806/2/...0bb/mov/main/index.html  

modernisierte Oracle diesen Bereich von Rakuten, was auch die kleine Delle in 2018 erklärt:

https://edu.ava360.com/...-business-growth-with-oracle_1ff2fb896.html

Inzwischen ist Rkauten Card aber wieder voll auf der Überholspur.
 

Die vier letzten Quartale von Rakuten Card ergeben ein Netincome  von 32806 Millionen JPY = bei 1 JPY = 0,009 Dollar =  ein Netincome dieses Fintech-Bereichs in Höhe von 295 Millionen.  

vieldiskutierte Wirecard in den letzten vier Quartalen dieses Net-Income erreichte und seht Euch anschließend einmal ihre Marktkapitalsierung an, die ich hiermit allerdings nicht für den Card-Bereich von Rakuten reklamieren möchte.  

Rakuten Securities Australia (RSA) is a forex and metals broker backed by the global expertise of Rakuten Securities, Inc.

With its head office in Tokyo, Rakuten Securities, Inc. is one of the major online brokers in Japan and across Asia servicing over 2.6 million clients since 1999.

We aim to focus on the fundamentals of being a good broker — highly competitive spreads, excellent local customer support, and the enduring strong principles of Rakuten, Inc. by which to run our business.

https://sec.rakuten.com.au/about/our-company/
 

As for Rakuten's ambitions in Japan's crowded telecommunications space, Mikitani said lower capital costs from new technologies and his company's proven track record in other businesses make him optimistic.

With the inclusion of the telecommunications business the company is seeking to build out a full lineup of services, he said.

"It's all about ecosystem," he told CNBC.

Speaking to CNBC's Akiko Fujita on Wednesday, Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani said the mobile business is a "very, very important" platform for services from e-commerce to content.

That's why there's a trend of mergers between content and networks in deals such as Verizon buying Yahoo, Mikitani said.

"In the future, we're going to see the conversion of network platforms and content and transactions."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/...rakuten-aims-for-an-ecosystem.html
 

Rakuten India to Become Rakuten's Global Innovation Center

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd2xpPRE2eo
 

Rakuten Securities Hong Kong Limited (RSHK) is a subsidiary of Rakuten Securities, Inc. (“Rakuten Securities”) which is one of the three largest forex brokers in the world^ and a pioneer in leveraged* foreign exchange trading in Hong Kong. Its Rakuten FX trading platform is also popular in Japan.

Benefited by tremendous financial capacity and the cutting edge FinTech of Rakuten Securities, Rakuten Securities HK is proud to present an award-winningʊ online forex trading platform – Rakuten FX. Its speedy execution, intuitive layout, and advanced analysis tools, definitely offers a brand new forex trading experience for Hong Kong traders.

https://sec.rakuten.com.hk/en/about-us/about-rakuten-securities-hk
 

Rakuten Trade Sdn Bhd is the result of a joint venture between Malaysia's Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad and Japan's Rakuten Securities, Inc.

Rakuten Trade extends its trading services including the app - iSPEED.my - the localised version of Japan’s leading mobile app developed by Rakuten Securities, Inc’s. Its web and mobile based trading services offer a 360° trading experience from account opening, execution, settlement of trade, research and trading ideas as well as rewards and financial knowledge. The all-in-one seamless platform enables investors to execute their own trading ideas end-to-end.

Rakuten Trade holds a restricted Capital Markets Services License (“CMSL”) by the Securities Commission Malaysia to deal in listed securities and provide investment advice.
Rakuten Securities, Inc.

Rakuten Securities is a subsidiary of Rakuten, Inc., and is one of Japan's major online broker, Founded in 1999, Rakuten Securities ranks 2nd in terms of retail equities trading value in Japan. Rakuten Securities provides cutting edge online trading platforms called "MARKETSPEED" and "ïSPEED" as well as data driven digital marketing activities for the highly demanding targeted clients. It is a successful, purely online broker that distributes a comprehensive range of products and services including domestic and oversea equities and future, mutual funds, OTC FX (over-the-counter forex), fixed income and commodities to a two million client base.

https://www.rakutentrade.my/
 

I believe, that a P/E between 25 and 30 for the 300 million net income of Rakuten Card makes sense - if we take the middle of the range with 27.5 the value of Rakuten Card alone - one of more than 70 businesses -  would be $ 8.25 billion.  

The strategies across the four countries share the same fundamental principles: highly competitive rates and excellent local customer service.

“When we go into new markets, we always implement our best practices,” explains Rakuten Securities President Yuji Kusunoki. “We identify markets with high potential and provide customers with low commissions and a high-tech, user-friendly platform.”

Kusunoki’s strategy is clearly a winner: “Rakuten Securities is now in the number two position in the online brokerage business in Japan,” he says. The company was also recently named the world’s third largest forex trading broker, achieving a trading volume of US$269.4 billion in the final quarter of 2016 – and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. “We are focusing on identifying more potential markets in the Asia-Oceania region where we can make the most of our industry expertise,” Kusunoki says.
With an exploding online population and a booming regional economy, Asia is proving to be the perfect environment for the next stage of Rakuten Securities’ growth.

https://rakuten.today/blog/rakuten-securities-asia-expansion.html
 

 
July 2 2018
Japanese e-Commerce and data group Rakuten has brought its two online research companies, Rakuten Research, Inc. and AIP Corporation, together under a single, new brand as Rakuten Insight.

From the beginning of next month Rakuten Research, which provides market research services to clients in Japan, will change its name to Rakuten Insight, Inc., while AIP Corporate, which services clients outside Japan, will become Rakuten Insight Global, Inc. - with a common logo.

Tokyo-based panel operator and online sampling and data collection firm AIP Corporation was established in 1997 and acquired by Rakuten four years ago for an undisclosed sum. The firm has offices in 11 countries, a research panel focused on 15 countries and regions in Asia, North America and Europe, and an extended panel network covering 60 countries and regions. In December the firm announced a partnership with Research Now, giving each access to the other's panel data, and agreeing to work together to develop digital research products and services.

Rakuten Research has one of Japan's largest panels, with around 2.2 million members, and was established in 2002. The two companies will now collaborate more closely to strengthen their service offerings, including big data consumer analysis and traditional MR and marketing activities - and will expand their geographical footprint, with announcements due soon.

http://www.mrweb.com/drno/news26434.htm