China’s Ant Group Wins Final Nod from Securities Watchdog for $35B IPO October 22, 2020 By Colin Qian, Julie Zhu and Meg Shen China’s Ant Group has won the final nod from the country’s top securities watchdog for the registration of its Shanghai...
Senator Calls on U.S. to Delay IPO by China’s Ant Group October 12, 2020 By Alexandra Alper Senator Marco Rubio, who has successfully urged the Trump administration to pursue investigations of Chinese companies, called on Friday for...
Post-Covid Cold War World Will Be Tough for China’s Ant: Opionion August 28, 2020 By Nisha Gopalan, Bloomberg Opinion Ensconced in a lucrative niche at home, Jack Ma’s Ant Group nevertheless has to look outward. And expanding overseas has...
Alibaba Unveils Management Changes Including CEO for Ant Financial December 19, 2019 By Zheping Huang and Jun Luo Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. and finance affiliate Ant Financial unveiled a series of management changes, including a new chief executive...
China’s Ant Financial Provides Health Coverage to 65 Million Clients for Pennies a Month May 21, 2019 By Bloomberg News Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. employed about 1.4 million people to peddle policies last year. Yet it’s Jack Ma’s newest...
Ant Financial Aims to Disrupt Health Insurance with New Chinese Health ‘Collective’ April 11, 2019 By Lulu Yilun Chen Billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Financial has done more than perhaps any company to disrupt China’s gargantuan banking and asset-management industries....
Philippine Payments Operator Mynt, Backed by Ant Financial, Plans to Offer Insurance April 1, 2019 By Lulu Yilun Chen Mynt, the Philippine payments operator backed by billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Financial, plans to roll out insurance products en route...
China’s Ant Financial Buys UK Payments Company WorldFirst February 14, 2019 By Lulu Yilun Chen Ant Financial, the Chinese financial services giant controlled by billionaire Jack Ma, bought London-based payments company WorldFirst in its biggest...
Stolen Apple IDs Used by Hackers to Steal Cash, Warn Chinese Digital Payments Firms October 11, 2018 By Bloomberg News Ant Financial’s Alipay and Tencent Holdings Ltd. warned that cyber attackers employed stolen Apple IDs to break into customers’ accounts...
Berkshire Invests $356M in One97, Parent of India’s Biggest Digital Payments Firm August 28, 2018 By Trevor Hunnicutt, Sankalp Phartiyal and Kane Wu Berkshire Hathaway Inc has acquired a 25 billion rupees ($356 million) stake in the parent of digital payments company Paytm,...