Who owns Rakuten Bank?
Rakuten Bank is not wholly owned by any single company recorded here: Rakuten (Japan, TSE: 4755) holds a 49.26% stake.[1] Rakuten Group holds 49.26% of the voting rights. Its FY2025 filing states that it "does not own a majority of voting rights in Rakuten Bank, Ltd. However, the Company has determined that it has substantial control over Rakuten Bank, Ltd. and included it in the scope of consolidation".
Evidence: Annual Securities Report ("Yukashoken-Hokokusho"), Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2025, Rakuten Group, Inc, 26 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Largest stakeholder
- Rakuten Group, Inc. (49.26% stake) reported
- Headquarters
- 🇯🇵 Japan, Tokyo
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Category
- Internet & digital › Digital services › Payments
- Parent ticker
- TSE: 4755
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Rakuten Bank
Rakuten Bank is the group's internet bank, taking deposits and making personal and housing loans, and it listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market in April 2023. Rakuten holds only 49.26 per cent of its voting rights. The group's own filing states that it does not own a majority but has determined that it has substantial control, and consolidates the bank on that basis.
Ownership timeline of Rakuten Bank
Where Rakuten Bank sits in Rakuten
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Rakuten
Rakuten controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 12 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in payments, and who owns them
The 36 brands in payments on Brandtree belong to 19 owners. The largest is PayPal, with 4; Rakuten has 3.
About the owner: Rakuten
Rakuten is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1997.
Rakuten was founded in May 1997 as MDM Co., Ltd. with ¥10 million of capital, to build an online commerce server and run an internet shopping mall called Rakuten Ichiba. It was renamed Rakuten, Inc. in June 1999 and Rakuten Group, Inc. in April 2021, and its shares moved to the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in April 2022. The group reports three segments — Internet Services, FinTech and Mobile — and recorded revenue of ¥2,496,575 million and a net loss attributable to owners of ¥177,886 million for 2025, with 29,419 employees. Its head office is at 1-14-1 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo.
🇯🇵 Rakuten Bank and other Japanese brands
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Frequently asked questions
Who owns Rakuten Bank?
No single company recorded here owns Rakuten Bank outright. Rakuten holds a 49.26% stake.
Does Rakuten control Rakuten Bank?
Not on the shareholding alone: a 49.26% holding is not a majority. Rakuten Group holds 49.26% of the voting rights. Its FY2025 filing states that it "does not own a majority of voting rights in Rakuten Bank, Ltd. However, the Company has determined that it has substantial control over Rakuten Bank, Ltd. and included it in the scope of consolidation".
Where did Rakuten Bank come from?
Rakuten Bank originated in Japan.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Annual Securities Report ("Yukashoken-Hokokusho"), Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2025 — Rakuten Group, Inc., Annual report, published 26 March 2026; retrieved 27 September 2026.
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