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Can provide an update on this. Rakuten have done a good job to allow for the funding of child accounts. When I clicked through my daughter’s account to add funds, I was presented with the option to either add from her own bank account, or from mine as her parent. After that, it was the same process ...

Have just gone through Rakuten Shoken (where I have my account) to set up one for my daughter. Just submitted the application and am awaiting their processing. I assume for now I will manage through my bank account and email address as my daughter is not yet even 1, but will be able to transfer some...

An update on my post yesterday. I had just spoken to an agent on the online chat for the second time before I posted, and I explained (perhaps not quite as eloquently) much of what Tkydon suggested in his response. Despite it being much the same as what I had mentioned the previous day, this agent a...

Just a frustrating update on my application for my daughter. The documents arrived last week, but I received an email yesterday accusing the birth certificate of being a photocopy and a message to say they require the original. The Shuseitodoke which I obtained from the ward office on official paper...

Are there any other suggestions for children accounts for investing? I am keen to set something up I can pay a regular amount into for my daughter, so that as she grows up I can use it teach her about the benefits of long-term steady investing as well as handing it over to her. Appreciate that from ...

Hi gaijin86. I'm still on the original IB LLC and haven't had any suggestion of being migrated. I was living in slight fear for all of last year following the news that people were being shifted to the Japanese version but I personally haven't had any correspondence to suggest I will be moved. And t...

Just wondered if there were any updates on applications from the above? My daughter was born in May, and I've been scrambling around trying to pull together all documents to have her passport issued practically since then. It's taken quite a while as I had to have my parents send me their birth and ...

Is anyone still using their US IB account?

I haven't received any information about having to be switched to an IBJ account and have continued to fund and use my US based account.

Apologies all for resurrecting an old thread, but I wanted to provide an update. I wrote to the Cabinet Office via their website a few months ago and received a reply last week as follows: Thank you for your query regarding progress in implementing the changes required to allow British citizens who ...

This is great news. Is there a mobile phone thread comparing the best offers from carriers? I'm currently on the old Line plan but they've just emailed me to say theyre pulling VoLTE support. Having looked into it, it doesn't really affect what I use, but it's made me wonder if I'm on the best value...