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    • 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

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      LexDigital currencies
      Ant: digital renminbi poses big risk to payments business Premium content

      Groups such as Alipay risk becoming providers of plumbing in a government-controlled financial system

    • 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

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      #techAsia
      Chips turn south and Ant seeks funds Premium content

      The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    • Monday, 14 November, 2022
      Jack Ma’s Ant pushes on with reduced fundraising effort

      Restructure is latest attempt to revamp business since blockbuster IPO was called off amid Beijing crackdown

    • 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 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

    • Monday, 18 July, 2022
      The Future of Money
      Ant Group expands global ambitions despite troubles at home Premium content

      Jack Ma’s company remains in a precarious position in China

    • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
      Alibaba
      Alibaba increases share buyback programme to $25bn in boost to stock

      Chinese ecommerce group raises plan for second time in a year after tech crackdown hammered company

    • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
      Alibaba
      Alibaba reports slowest quarterly sales growth since 2014 listing

      Chinese ecommerce giant hit by Beijing’s tech crackdown, Covid and rising competition

    • Friday, 21 January, 2022
      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
      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

    • Friday, 24 December, 2021
      Chinese business & finance
      China Cinda takes 24% stake in Ant’s consumer credit unit

      State-owned asset manager joins in $3.5bn fundraising at company controlled by embattled internet tycoon Jack Ma

    • 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

    • Tuesday, 14 September, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Alipay break-up is power grab by China’s government

      Transactions data offers new opportunities for state surveillance

    • Monday, 13 September, 2021
      Beijing to break up Ant’s Alipay and force creation of separate loans app

      Chinese fintech will turn over user data to new joint venture partly owned by state

    • Monday, 13 September, 2021
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      Beijing plans to break up Alipay, hedge funds flock to Silicon Valley

      Chinese officials want to break up Alipay and create a separate app for Ant’s loans business

    • Friday, 27 August, 2021
      Chinese business & finance
      Ant-controlled fund invested in groups linked to detained Chinese official

      Companies were established by relatives of Hangzhou party secretary who was arrested for alleged corruption

    • Thursday, 3 June, 2021
      Jack Ma’s Ant Group receives consumer finance licence

      Larger challenge looms for the Chinese group to find funding for lending business

    • Monday, 24 May, 2021
      Jack Ma
      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, 30 April, 2021
      Technology regulation
      Chinese regulators tell fintech groups to fix ‘problems’

      Tencent, ByteDance and 11 others summoned as Beijing extends pressure beyond Jack Ma’s Ant Group

    • Monday, 26 April, 2021
      The Future of Money
      The end of Chinese fintech’s ‘barbaric growth’ Premium content

      Plus: Revolut pushes into India, Lendify’s “quick-fire” sale and Wirecard’s bags of cash

    • Friday, 23 April, 2021
      Lex
      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
      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
      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

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