Wednesday, 4 November 2020

Explainer: What's next for Ant after China suspends $37 billion listing?

By Yingzhi Yang and Pei Li
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's suspension of Ant Group's $37 billion listing just days ahead of its stock market debut has thrown the company and its investors into a tailspin and it faces a scramble to try and satisfy financial regulators, analysts say.
The company has been trying to present itself as a technology company, rather than a financial giant, but Chinese regulators have become increasingly uncomfortable with parts of its sprawling empire, namely its most lucrative credit business which contributed close to 40% of the group’s revenue in the first half of the year.

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