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  • 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
    FintechFT
    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

  • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
    News in-depthJack Ma
    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

  • Tuesday, 13 April, 2021
    Technology sector
    China tech groups given a month to fix antitrust practices

    Regulators summon 34 online companies after imposing record fine on Alibaba

  • Monday, 12 April, 2021
    #techFT
    Alibaba and Ant’s rectification reckoning

    Microsoft buys Nuance; Darktrace, Trustly to IPO; groceries in a Jiffy

  • Monday, 12 April, 2021
    Ant ordered to restructure by Chinese regulators

    Lending services could be severely weakened by loosening ties to Alipay payment platform

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    Jack Ma
    Beijing forces elite Jack Ma academy to halt new enrolments

    Chinese authorities pressure business school in latest move to rein in tech billionaire’s influence

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    EU vaccine clash, UK bond woes, Alipay fees, comfort food

    European leaders clash over vaccine distribution at a marathon virtual summit

  • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
    Jack Ma’s Ant demands bigger fees to rebuild valuation after pulled IPO

    Chinese fintech boosts commissions to offset Beijing’s crackdown on lending business

  • Friday, 12 March, 2021
    #techFT
    A golden age of cyber snooping

    Jack Ma’s jet trails, post-Covid cities, Oppo’s billion-colour phone

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