Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been strangling corporate power.
Sipa US
China’s statist logic or market organisation is shared by the likes of South Africa, Brazil, India, Russia and even South Korea.
Jack of all trades.
EPA
It’s not only Alibaba and Ant Group that are feeling the heat.
Back to the start?
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Last minute decision suspends world’s biggest IPO. But it exposes debates still ongoing about how to regulate fintech companies.
Ant climax.
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Most people would be content to pull off one of the world’s top five IPOs, but Jack Ma is on course for his second.
Ant Group is the payments powerhouse behind Alibaba.
Piotr Swap
In the teeth of the crackdown on foreign listed companies, Ant Group has opted for Hong Kong – ultimately to the cost of American savers.