Rakuten [wikipedia Site]  is a highly popular Japanese shopping destination online, where you can get anything, from laptops to shoes to travel, you name it.  Now they are adding their own bank in 2010. The aggregated model exemplified by Rakuten works well in Japan, and the addition of banking is one more innovation for traditional banks to contend with. Rakuten online shopping mall to open eBank TOKYO, Jun 04, 2009 (Kyodo News International – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — Internet mall operator Rakuten Inc. said Thursday it will rename its Internet banking unit eBANK Corp. as Rakuten Bank before … Continue reading Japanese online shopping site Rakuten to open eBank