Jack Ma Is Back, but Ant’s Troubles Are Far From Over

  • 📰 WSJ
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 43 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 20%
  • Publisher: 63%

United States Headlines News

United States Latest News,United States Headlines

Heard on the Street: A tougher regulatory approach—and probably slower growth—now look inevitable for Ant Group

of e-commerce giant Alibaba , another company in Mr. Ma’s empire, last month.

Investors took Mr. Ma’s reappearance as an auspicious sign—Alibaba’s Hong Kong-listed shares jumped 8.5% Wednesday. They may have inferred that Mr. Ma is now back in Beijing’s good graces and the regulatory storm will be over. But there doesn’t seem to be a letup: on the same day Mr. Ma made his public appearance, China’s central bank released draft rules governing nonbank payment systems, in which Ant’s Alipay is a major player.

There are still uncertainties about what some of the draft rules mean. The rules, for example, say if two players have more than half of the nonbank payment markets—Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay dominate China’s mobile and internet payments—then the central bank would hold talks with the companies. It’s unclear what the exact consequences or remedies would be after such warnings, though.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Political will to fight corruption and Crony Capitalism

Didn't the US and the EU also try to break up Google companies to prevent Google monopolies?

They say why he disappeared for awhile? Lol just wondering since they blasted his disappearance so much, I wanna know what he was doin this whole time lol! Better of been some cool shit!

good luck

If I was jack ma I’d get the hell out of China

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 98. in US

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.