Jack Ma’s woes continue to compound

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The pressure on Chinese tech billionaire Jack Ma is ratcheting up as a state-run group scraps a deal to invest in Ant Group’s consumer finance arm, and as state media implicates the group in a corruption scandal.

Reuters reported last week that the Biden administration was investigating whether Alibaba’s cloud business represents a potential risk to US national security.

The probe represents a real threat to Alibaba’s rapidly growing cloud business. Alibaba is already the world’s fourth-largest cloud provider, with some 4 million customers. Last week, a state-owned financial institution unexpectedly pulled out of a deal to invest in Ant’s consumer lending business. In December, Chongqing Ant said it was doing a $US3.5 billion capital raising, with Cinda contributing almost a quarter of the funds. The capital raising would have boosted Chongqing Ant’s balance sheet, clearing the way for it to take over Ant Group’s existing consumer lending portfolio.

Officials had been worried that the size of the fund, which serves hundreds of millions of small investors and at one stage boasted more than $US180 billion in funds under management, posed a potential risk to China’s financial system.

 

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