Would you risk transferring money to a friend or family member using Facebook? because it is this is the unusual innovation that the Rakuten a Japanese e-commerce company decided to create.
The service allows account holders (Customers with a current account at Rakuten) to carry out transactions via Facebook, currently the service already works perfectly in Singapore and the United Kingdom and will soon be available in Japan and so on.
The feature allows you to send and receive amounts of money using only the recipient's email address or simply connecting the company's application to the Facebook account. From there, it is possible to select friends from the network to perform transactions, application-level support works on Android and iOS through it allows you to connect to the Facebook account of the person to whom you want to send money.
Transfers between two service customers do not incur any cost, if the recipient is not a user of the service, a fee of US $ 1,60 is required. For now, the platform supports only the Japanese yen currency.
The company did not advance the security measures that it will adopt to avoid the diversion of money if the profile of the person in which you want to send the money is in any case a new product in the market is worth adding that requires tests, reviews and suggestions for improvement.
[Source]: The Next Web
