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    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      Inside BusinessTom Mitchell
      The Jack Ma test for China’s promised shift

      Beijing’s treatment of fallen entrepreneurs will provide evidence of how far it has shifted on the private sector

    • Saturday, 7 January, 2023
      Chinese business & finance
      Jack Ma cedes control of Ant Group

      Chinese billionaire’s reduced voting rights mean IPO plans can be rebooted

    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      Chinese business & finance
      Jack Ma quits as head of China business group

      Alibaba founder continues to slide out of public view after offending Beijing

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      Miranda Green
      Jack Ma becomes latest leader to drown his past in watercolour

      The Chinese business exile is in a long line of powerful hobbyists taking Churchill’s ‘joyride in a paintbox’

    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
      Alibaba founder Jack Ma living in Tokyo since China’s tech crackdown

      Billionaire has spent almost six months in Japan after largely disappearing from public view

    • Sunday, 13 November, 2022
      Coronavirus economic impact
      Cupid’s Singles Day arrow wide of the mark for China’s weary shoppers

      World’s biggest retail event fails to lift economic gloom as zero-Covid policies bite

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      LexAlibaba
      Alibaba/Jack Ma: sightings in Europe will no longer boost falling stock Premium content

      Share price gains triggered by sightings of the Chinese billionaire will become less frequent with Ant exit

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      Ant Group
      Ant Group IPO set for further delay as Jack Ma plans to give up control

      Founder’s decision to retreat from Chinese fintech giant will push back planned float by at least a year

    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
      News in-depthChinese business & finance
      Alibaba and Tencent’s darkening clouds

      Chinese tech giants lag behind pace of US rivals as Beijing favours state vendors

    • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
      Alibaba
      Chinese state media report on ‘Ma’ detention sparks Alibaba sell-off

      Broadcaster CCTV later indicated it was not referring to billionaire founder Jack Ma

    • Friday, 21 January, 2022
      Ant Group
      Jack Ma’s Ant Group implicated in corruption scandal by Chinese state media

      Documentary on state broadcaster CCTV adds to pressure on billionaire’s internet empire

    • Friday, 14 January, 2022
      Ant Group
      Jack Ma’s Ant Group faces restructuring obstacle as state investor withdraws

      Government asset manager’s capital was needed to help fintech group meet new financial risk rules

    • Monday, 6 December, 2021
      Alibaba
      Alibaba finance chief to step down in company restructuring

      Chinese ecommerce giant has been hit by Beijing’s crackdown on tech groups and rising competition

    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      Chinese business & finance
      Evergrande founder loses $25bn as Xi crackdown hits big tycoons

      China rich list shows property magnate’s personal fortune shrank 70% over past year

    • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
      Jack Ma makes first trip outside China since running foul of Beijing

      Chinese internet billionaire vacations in Spain as shares of his company Alibaba rise 9%

    • Sunday, 29 August, 2021
      Chinese politics & policy
      Jack Ma and the Chinese tech titans’ mission to give away billions

      Xi Jinping’s focus on ‘common prosperity’ has galvanised the country’s wealthiest entrepreneurs

    • Monday, 2 August, 2021
      FT AlphavilleClaire Jones
      Who‘s afraid of the bad Big Tech?

      Central banks, that‘s who. Now the BIS suggests watching them like big banks.

    • Friday, 2 July, 2021
      Alibaba
      Alibaba founders secure loans from global banks backed by company stock

      Chinese tech billionaires Jack Ma and Joe Tsai take loans for property, private jets and business deals

    • Monday, 24 May, 2021
      Jack Ma to step down as president of his elite business school

      Alibaba founder retreats from Hupan University as Beijing extends crackdown on entrepreneur

    • Friday, 23 April, 2021
      LexAnt Group
      Jack Ma/Ant Group: a disrupter who is no longer good for business Premium content

      The billionaire and his businesses may have been too freewheeling for Beijing’s tastes

    • Friday, 23 April, 2021
      Ant Group
      China’s central bank fights Jack Ma’s Ant Group over control of data

      Beijing wants to create state-run repository to manage fintech’s most valuable asset

    • Thursday, 22 April, 2021
      Ant Group
      Jack Ma’s Ant shrinks money market fund as Beijing cracks down

      Fintech group pushes users to move savings to other managers as pressure intensifies

    • Tuesday, 20 April, 2021
      News in-depthAlibaba
      China tech groups hire ex-regulators to fend off Beijing’s crackdown

      Alibaba among those hiring former officials as Xi Jinping tightens grip on private sector

    • Thursday, 15 April, 2021
      Best FT Weekend long reads of 2021
      The vanishing billionaire: how Jack Ma fell foul of Xi Jinping

      Alibaba founder’s dramatic rise and fall illustrates China’s wary embrace of tycoons who power economic growth

    • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
      News in-depth
      Beijing hints at truce in war on Jack Ma’s business empire

      Alibaba appears to escape tough punishment while Ant Group faces more severe measures

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