China’s Ant Group says founder Jack Ma will give up control


PTI, Jan 8, 2023, 8:29 AM IST

Credit: AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File

Washington DC: E-commerce billionaire Jack Ma will give up control of Ant Group, the leading Chinese financial technology provider he founded.

In a statement posted Friday, Ant Group said that after an ownership restructuring, “no shareholder, alone or with other parties” will have “control over Ant Group.”

The company is an affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba, which Ma also founded. The move follows other efforts over the years by the Chinese government to rein in Ma and the country’s tech sector more broadly.

Two years ago, the once high-profile Ma largely disappeared from view for 2 1/2 months after criticizing China’s regulators. The government at the same time also forced Ant Group to call off a highly-anticipated IPO that would have raised over $3 billion, just days before it was to launch.

Yet Ma’s surrender of control comes after other signs the government was easing up on Chinese online firms. Late last year Beijing signaled at an economic work conference that it would support technology firms to boost economic growth and create more jobs.

And last month, the government said it would allow Ant Group to raise USD 1.5 billion in capital for its consumer finance unit.

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