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    • Saturday, 8 July, 2023
      Ant Group
      Ant Group launches $6bn buyback after regulatory crackdown ends

      Fintech giant offers to repurchase shares at greatly reduced $78bn valuation following ‘rectification’

      Attendees in front of the Ant Group booth at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China
    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      Alibaba
      Eddie Wu prepares to run Alibaba empire built with mentor Jack Ma

      Tech group co-founder to take reins and preside over its break-up

      Eddie Yongming Wu with Alibaba logo in the background
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      Alibaba
      Alibaba replaces longtime chief in management shake-up

      Co-founder Jack Ma’s top lieutenant to take job while outgoing chair will focus on cloud business

      Daniel Zhang
    • Monday, 1 May, 2023
      Alibaba founder Jack Ma takes up teaching post in Tokyo

      Chinese entrepreneur is re-emerging in public as Beijing’s crackdown on tech eases

      Jack Ma
    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      The Big Read
      China truce with business — for now

      Worried about decelerating growth, Xi Jinping has launched a charm offensive to convince investors the country is open for business

    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      News in-depthAlibaba
      Alibaba bets on split to survive Chinese tech’s new battlefields

      Separation of units marks biggest shake-up of ecommerce group since Jack Ma founded it 24 years ago

      Jack Ma, left, and Daniel Zhang
    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      Jack Ma returns to China as Beijing seeks to lift confidence in tech sector

      Alibaba founder makes rare public visit that country hopes will reinvigorate entrepreneurial class

      Jack Ma
    • 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

      China’s economic tsar Liu He delivers a speech at the World Economic Forum
    • 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

      Jack Ma
    • 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

      Jack Ma
    • 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’

      Churchill painting beside Lake Geneva
    • 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

      Jack Ma, right, visiting a Dutch flower grower in the Netherlands in October 2021
    • 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

      People walk along a main shopping area during the Alibaba’s Singles’ Day shopping festival in Shanghai, China
    • 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

      Jack Ma
    • 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

      Jack Ma
    • 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

      A man walks past a logo of Alibaba Group at its office building in Beijing
    • 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

      An Alibaba sign outside the company’s office in Beijing
    • 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

      The Ant Group headquarters in Hangzhou, China
    • 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

      A man walks past an Ant Group logo at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai
    • 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

      The logo of Alibaba Group at its office in Beijing
    • 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%

      Jack Ma
    • 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

      Alibaba founder Jack Ma
    • 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

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