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"Bank payment via Facebook is coming to Japan, if you're a customer of Rakuten. The company is best known for its global\u00A0e-commerce business, which includes the US site formerly known as Play.com, but it offers a range of other\u00A0services in its homeland, including banking.\r\n\r\nThe new feature -- which has been adopted in Singapore\u00A0and the UK, but Rakuten says is a first for Japan -- has been added to Rakuten Bank's iOS and Android apps, which already support payment using email addresses. Customers simply log in to the app, connect their Facebook and Rakuten bank accounts, and select the\u00A0Facebook friend to pay.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTransfers between two customers who have connected their accounts to Facebook are free, otherwise a\u00A0165 yen ($1.60) fee is charged. For now, the service supports\u00A0Japanese yen only.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Rakuten announcement\r\n\r\nRelated:\u00A0Rakuten believes its chat app Viber can \u2018completely change\u2019 its e-commerce business\r\n\r\nThumbnail image via\u00A0Stephen Lam / AFP / Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://thenextweb.com/asia/2014/08/06/rakuten-brings-bank-payments-via-facebook-to-japan/>