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Ant Group's $30-billion IPO sets up Jack Ma for a battle with Tencent

China's two largest corporations Alibaba and Tencent are wrestling for online leadership in everything from social entertainment to e-commerce and cloud computing

Ant Group's $30 billion IPO sets up Jack Ma to escalate war with Tencent
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Zheping Huang and Lulu Yilun Chen | Bloomberg
Ant Group’s late-summer IPO filing drove home why the business -- backed by 711 million active users that spent $17 trillion through its platform -- is headed for potentially the world’s largest stock debut. Yet investors may do well to focus on the long-term threat to its core businesses from arch rival Tencent Holdings Ltd.

Ant is set to join the top echelon of global finance alongside Bank of America Corp., as it seeks to raise about $30 billion with a valuation of about $225 billion in Hong Kong and Shanghai, people familiar have said. Once the dust settles, the