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Ant Group plans to hive off credit data in revamp; sees IPO in 2 years

Ant's restructuring plan, which Reuters reported on Wednesday, could ease billionaire founder Jack Ma's regulatory woes

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Ant’s restructuring plan could ease billionaire founder Jack Ma’s regulatory woes

Julie Zhu, Yingzhi Yang & Kane Wu | Reuters
Ant Group plans to spin off its consumer-credit data operations, people with knowledge of the matter said, a concession to aggressive regulators that should help the Chinese fintech giant get its massive public share sale back on track.
 
Hiving off the treasure trove of data on more than 1 billion people is a key part of Ant’s business overhaul in response to a regulatory crackdown that resulted in the abrupt suspension of its $37 billion initial public offering (IPO), which would have been the world’s biggest, the people told Reuters.
 
The data spinoff, along with Ant’s conversion to