Alibaba to Buy a Third of Ant Financial, Paving Way for IPO

(Source: Bloomberg) Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will buy 33 percent of Ant Financial, helping to clear the way for an initial public offering of the Chinese payments giant. … Ant Financialpaid Alibaba about 2.09 billion yuan ($332 million) in royalty and technology fees in fiscal 2017, up about 86 percent from the previous year, according to a 2017 …