Much attention has been paid to China's massive crackdown on its tech titans, particularly those providing financial services.
The quashing of Ant Group's mega initial public offering in November last year was only the beginning. Since then, China's regulators have required, among other things, that the financial services divisions of Big Techs be restructured and subjected to much more supervision than in the past.
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