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  • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
    Inside BusinessTom Mitchell
    The Jack Ma test for China’s promised shift

    Beijing’s treatment of fallen entrepreneurs will provide evidence of how far it has shifted on the private sector

  • Saturday, 7 January, 2023
    Chinese business & finance
    Jack Ma cedes control of Ant Group

    Chinese billionaire’s reduced voting rights mean IPO plans can be rebooted

  • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
    Chinese business & finance
    Jack Ma quits as head of China business group

    Alibaba founder continues to slide out of public view after offending Beijing

  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
    Miranda Green
    Jack Ma becomes latest leader to drown his past in watercolour

    The Chinese business exile is in a long line of powerful hobbyists taking Churchill’s ‘joyride in a paintbox’

  • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
    Alibaba founder Jack Ma living in Tokyo since China’s tech crackdown

    Billionaire has spent almost six months in Japan after largely disappearing from public view

  • Sunday, 13 November, 2022
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Cupid’s Singles Day arrow wide of the mark for China’s weary shoppers

    World’s biggest retail event fails to lift economic gloom as zero-Covid policies bite

  • Friday, 29 July, 2022
    LexAlibaba
    Alibaba/Jack Ma: sightings in Europe will no longer boost falling stock Premium content

    Share price gains triggered by sightings of the Chinese billionaire will become less frequent with Ant exit

  • Friday, 29 July, 2022
    Ant Group
    Ant Group IPO set for further delay as Jack Ma plans to give up control

    Founder’s decision to retreat from Chinese fintech giant will push back planned float by at least a year

  • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
    News in-depthChinese business & finance
    Alibaba and Tencent’s darkening clouds

    Chinese tech giants lag behind pace of US rivals as Beijing favours state vendors

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Alibaba
    Chinese state media report on ‘Ma’ detention sparks Alibaba sell-off

    Broadcaster CCTV later indicated it was not referring to billionaire founder Jack Ma

  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
    Ant Group
    Jack Ma’s Ant Group implicated in corruption scandal by Chinese state media

    Documentary on state broadcaster CCTV adds to pressure on billionaire’s internet empire

  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
    Ant Group
    Jack Ma’s Ant Group faces restructuring obstacle as state investor withdraws

    Government asset manager’s capital was needed to help fintech group meet new financial risk rules

  • Monday, 6 December, 2021
    Alibaba
    Alibaba finance chief to step down in company restructuring

    Chinese ecommerce giant has been hit by Beijing’s crackdown on tech groups and rising competition

  • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
    Chinese business & finance
    Evergrande founder loses $25bn as Xi crackdown hits big tycoons

    China rich list shows property magnate’s personal fortune shrank 70% over past year

  • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
    Jack Ma makes first trip outside China since running foul of Beijing

    Chinese internet billionaire vacations in Spain as shares of his company Alibaba rise 9%

  • Sunday, 29 August, 2021
    Chinese politics & policy
    Jack Ma and the Chinese tech titans’ mission to give away billions

    Xi Jinping’s focus on ‘common prosperity’ has galvanised the country’s wealthiest entrepreneurs

  • Monday, 2 August, 2021
    FT AlphavilleClaire Jones
    Who‘s afraid of the bad Big Tech?

    Central banks, that‘s who. Now the BIS suggests watching them like big banks.

  • Friday, 2 July, 2021
    Alibaba
    Alibaba founders secure loans from global banks backed by company stock

    Chinese tech billionaires Jack Ma and Joe Tsai take loans for property, private jets and business deals

  • Monday, 24 May, 2021
    Jack Ma to step down as president of his elite business school

    Alibaba founder retreats from Hupan University as Beijing extends crackdown on entrepreneur

  • Friday, 23 April, 2021
    LexAnt Group
    Jack Ma/Ant Group: a disrupter who is no longer good for business Premium content

    The billionaire and his businesses may have been too freewheeling for Beijing’s tastes

  • Friday, 23 April, 2021
    Ant Group
    China’s central bank fights Jack Ma’s Ant Group over control of data

    Beijing wants to create state-run repository to manage fintech’s most valuable asset

  • Thursday, 22 April, 2021
    Ant Group
    Jack Ma’s Ant shrinks money market fund as Beijing cracks down

    Fintech group pushes users to move savings to other managers as pressure intensifies

  • Tuesday, 20 April, 2021
    News in-depthAlibaba
    China tech groups hire ex-regulators to fend off Beijing’s crackdown

    Alibaba among those hiring former officials as Xi Jinping tightens grip on private sector

  • Thursday, 15 April, 2021
    Best FT Weekend long reads of 2021
    The vanishing billionaire: how Jack Ma fell foul of Xi Jinping

    Alibaba founder’s dramatic rise and fall illustrates China’s wary embrace of tycoons who power economic growth

  • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
    News in-depth
    Beijing hints at truce in war on Jack Ma’s business empire

    Alibaba appears to escape tough punishment while Ant Group faces more severe measures

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