{"id":6408,"date":"2009-11-18T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=6408"},"modified":"2009-11-18T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T16:40:08","slug":"rakuten-subsidises-electronic-money-service-edy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/rakuten-subsidises-electronic-money-service-edy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakuten Subsidises Electronic Money Service Edy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rakuten.co.jp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/rakuten.gif\" alt=\"Rakuten\" title=\"Rakuten\" width=\"100\" height=\"47\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1964\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edy.jp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/edy-logo.gif\" alt=\"edy-logo\" title=\"edy-logo\" width=\"41\" height=\"42\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6409\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edy.jp\/company\/index.html\">BitWallet, Inc.<\/a> [J], a company has been running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edy.jp\/\">Edy<\/a> [J] since 2001, will allocate new stocks to a third party at the end of this year, about 3 billion yen of which will be bought by Rakuten.<br \/>\nRakuten group, centres the giant e-commerce mall Rakuten Ichiba, purchased KC Card, a credit card company in 2005 (renamed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rakuten-kc.co.jp\/\">Rakuten KC Credit Card<\/a>), online bank E-Bank in 2008, Rakuten Securities in 2003.<br \/>\nEdy&#8217;s device (boths card and chip in cellphones) have been issued over 50 million, which is bigger than any other digital money service in Japan. 6 out of 7 major convenience stores support Edy. So Edy is successful in terms of how widely to spread among people, but BitWallet has been recording red inc in 9 consecutive fiscal years.<\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.rakuten.co.jp\/ir\/releases\/pdf\/2009\/2009_11_05_01.pdf\">Rakuten&#8217;s release<\/a> [J, pdf]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bizmakoto.jp\/makoto\/articles\/0909\/25\/news018.html\">Edy Chief Strategist Interview<\/a> [J]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BitWallet, Inc. [J], a company has been running Edy [J] since 2001, will allocate new stocks to a third party at the end of this year, about 3 billion yen of which will be bought by Rakuten. Rakuten group, centres the giant e-commerce mall Rakuten Ichiba, purchased KC Card, a credit card company in 2005&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/rakuten-subsidises-electronic-money-service-edy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rakuten Subsidises Electronic Money Service Edy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[440,915,1042,1055,3047,3986],"class_list":["post-6408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-bitwallet","tag-digital-money","tag-edy","tag-electronic-money","tag-rakuten","tag-virtual-money","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}