Ahead of IPO, Ant Group faces an identity conundrum — is it a tech firm or a bank?

Ahead of IPO, Ant Group faces an identity conundrum — is it a tech firm or a bank?

Photographer: Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg

Yingzhi Yang, Cheng Leng, Julie Zhu

03 November, 2020

Ant IPO fintech

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