Jack Ma’s Giant Financial Startup
is Shaking the Chinese Banking System.

Ant Financial is transforming how Chinese run their daily finances, drawing flak from big banks and warning shots from the government.

Stella Yifan Xie reports: Ant Financial Services Group, founded by Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, has become the world’s biggest financial-technology firm, driving innovations that let people use their phones for buying insurance as easily as groceries, enabling millions to go weeks at a time without using physical cash.

That success is also putting a target on the company’s back. China, even more than the U.S., is now under pressure to reckon with the disruptive power of a financial-technology giant.

It handled more payments last year than Mastercard, controls the world’s largest money-market fund and has made loans to tens of millions of people. Its online payments platform completed more than $8 trillion of transactions last year—the equivalent of more than twice Germany’s gross domestic product…..WSJ

Chinese Tech Billionare Jack Ma’s Ant Financial