Ant turning from windfall to nightmare for global investors
Hong Kong
TWO months ago, global investors including Warburg Pincus, Carlyle, Temasek Holdings and GIC were on the cusp of a massive windfall from what would have been the world's largest initial public offering.
Now, returns on the hundreds of millions of dollars they invested with Ant Group are in jeopardy. On Sunday, China ordered Ant to re-examine its fintech businesses - spanning from wealth management to consumer credit lending and insurance - and return to its roots as a payments service.
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