Jack Ma’s Ant Group has suffered a setback to its government-led restructuring efforts after a state-owned asset manager unexpectedly pulled out of a deal to invest in the fintech’s lending arm.
China Cinda Asset Management, controlled by the country’s finance ministry, was set to invest Rmb6bn ($946m) in exchange for 20 per cent of Ant’s loans business, but said late on Thursday that it was withdrawing from the deal after “prudent commercial consideration and negotiation with the Target Company”.
Ant, which is controlled by the billionaire tech entrepreneur Ma, has been restructuring its business since Chinese regulators pulled the plug on its blockbuster $37bn initial public offering just days before it was set to debut in November 2020.
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