This photo taken on Oct 15, 2020 shows the headquarters of Ant Group in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. (PHOTO / XINHUA)
The Chinese mainland's fintech giant Ant Group has no plan to initiate an initial public offering, it said on Sunday in an emailed statement to Reuters.
"Ant Group has been focusing on its business rectification and optimization, and does not have a plan for an IPO," the company spokesperson said.
Ant Group said on Saturday that its founder Jack Ma no longer controls the company after a series of shareholding adjustments that saw him give up most of his voting rights.
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Ma's ceding of control comes as Ant is nearing the completion of its two-year restructuring, with authorities poised to impose a fine of more than $1 billion on the firm, Reuters reported in November.
The mainland's domestic A-share market requires companies to wait three years after a change in control to list. The wait is two years on Shanghai's Nasdaq-style STAR market, and one year in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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Ant's $37 billion IPO, which would have been the world's largest, was canceled at the last minute in November 2020.