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China to break up Ant’s Alipay, force creation of separate loans app

Plan will also see app turn over user data to new partly state-owned credit scoring joint venture

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 13 Sep 2021 4:30PM

China to break up Ant’s Alipay, force creation of separate loans app
Alipay is a hugely popular payments app owned by Jack Ma’s Ant Group. – Reuters pic, September 13, 2021

BEIJING – Beijing wants to break up Alipay, the hugely popular payments app owned by Jack Ma’s Ant Group, and create a separate app for the company’s highly profitable loans business, the Financial Times reported yesterday.

The plan will also see Ant turn over the user data that underpins its lending decisions to a new credit scoring joint venture, which will be partly state-owned, the newspaper reported, citing two people familiar with the process. – Reuters, September 13, 2021

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