Rakuten Group prices Rakuten Bank shares at 2,470 yen in $412 mln offshore sale
TOKYO, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Japan's Rakuten Group 4755.T
said on Thursday it set a 2,470 yen per share price in a planned
offshore sale of 24.5 million shares of Rakuten Bank 5838.T
worth 60.6 billion yen ($411.85 million).
The e-commerce and fintech giant announced on Wednesday it
would sell nearly 15% stake of the online bank unit, its latest
effort to contend with heavy debt and losses at its mobile
network business. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N3D10I7
($1 = 147.1400 yen)
(Reporting by Kantaro Komiya; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
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