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Occupation (s) Rapper. songwriter. record producer. Years active. 1987–present. Labels. Jive, Priority. Ant Banks (born Anthony Banks, May 16, 1969), [2] is an American record producer and rapper from Oakland, California.
- Do or Die (Ant Banks album)
Do or Die is the third studio album by American rapper and...
- Big Thangs
Big Thangs is a compilation presented by American rapper and...
- Do or Die (Ant Banks album)
Ant Banks, nome d'arte di Anthony Banks (...), è un rapper e produttore discografico statunitense . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Discografia. 2.1 Album in studio. 2.2 Raccolte. 3 Collegamenti esterni. Biografia. Ha prodotto dischi per molti artisti hip-hop della West Coast, particolarmente per coloro che vivono nella Bay Area.
- History
- Expansion Outside Asia
- Services
- Structure
- Controversies
- Related Entities
Founding and expansion
Alipay was rebranded as Ant Group Services on 23 October 2014, and the company changed its name to Ant Group Co., Ltd on 13 July 2020. In 2015, Ant Group raised $4.5 billion in a funding round with investors including China Investment Corp (CIC), CCB Trust, China Life, China Post Group, China Development Bank Capital and Primavera Capital Group. In 2015, the company was valued at about $45 billion. As of 26 April 2016, Ant Group had around 450 million annual active users, with Credit Suisse e...
Attempted initial public offering
In 2020, Ant Group intended to complete an initial public offering, aiming to raise $34 billion by listing. This would have been the largest such offering by any company to date, above the $29.4 billion raised by Saudi Aramcoas a result of its 2019 offering. Due to Ant Group's scale—the company has approximately one billion users in China—and its operations, which include lending services, the company has attracted regulatory scrutiny in the past. The China Securities Regulatory Commission pr...
After suspension of IPO
On 4 December 2020, Ant Group's unit and a consortium comprising Greenland Financial Holdings Group, Linklogis Hong Kong Ltd, and Beijing Co-operative Equity Investment Fund Management, have been selected to receive the digital wholesale bank (DWB) licences in Singapore. Ant Group was later ordered by the People’s Bank of China on 26 December 2020 to "rectify" its business and formulate an implementation timetable. The central bank also summoned Ant executives, saying that the Group lacked an...
Driven by the growing numbers of Chinese tourists around the world, Ant Group has sought to expand its services into Europe and the United States. In Europe, the company had tripled the number of merchants that are accepting the Alipay app, according to the firm's head of Europe division. Partnerships exist between Alipay and various European digit...
It operates Alipay, the world's largest mobile and online payments platform as well as Yu’e Bao, formerly the world's largest money-market fund. It also runs Zhima Credit, a third-party credit rating system.As of September 2017, Ant Group unveiled its facial recognition payment technology through its Alipay services. In September 2018, the company ...
The Ant IPO prospectus shows a complex ownership structure with Hangzhou Junhan owning 29.86%, Hangzhou Junao owning 20.66%, and Alibaba itself holding 32.65%. Meanwhile, another entity named Hangzhou Yunbo controls the top two stakeholders, Hangzhou Junhan and Hangzhou Junao, as their executive and general partner. Jack Ma was Yunbo's single large...
Connection with Megvii
In September 2020, former Google China president and venture capitalist Kai-Fu Lee said in a public speech that Sinovation Ventures had assisted Megvii, a Beijing-based company known for providing artificial intelligenceproducts to various businesses, in obtaining a large amount of private facial data from Ant Group to “analyze how to enter various industries.” Following Lee's speech, Ant Group denied providing Megvii facial data. Lee later said he “misspoke” on the issue.
Sharing consumer data with Chinese government
In January 2021, The Wall Street Journalreported that China's regulators were trying to make Ant share the troves of personal data in its payment and lifestyle app, Alipay, which is used by over a billion people. The data include consumers' spending habits, borrowing behaviors, and payment histories. According to people familiar with the issue, in the past, Jack Ma had resisted the authorities' attempts to grab the data owned by Ant. In late December 2020, China's central bank criticized Ant...
Predatory lending
The Ant group had been criticized for engaging in moral hazard and predatory lending. Because the company takes only 2 percent risk for the loans it originates and others take 98 percent risk, it is incentivized to generate a larger number of riskier loans to earn fees, even from those who are unable to pay it back.Another issue was Ant’s model for determining credit scores. Instead of depending on factors like the consumer’s debt ratio or their income. The Ant group relied on a counter-intui...
Subsidiaries
1. Alipay – a mobile wallet app supports make and accept payments. 2. Huabei (Ant Credit Pay) – a virtual credit card type of product that facilitates credit payments. 3. MYbank – a private cloud-based online bank that is also one of six state-banked financial institutions to operate the digital yuan in China.Ant Group owns a 30% stake in the subsidiary bank. 4. Jiebei (Ant Cash Now) – a consumer loan service. 5. Ant Fortune – a comprehensive wealth management app. 6. Ant Insurance Services 7...
International partners
1. 2C2P(Singapore) 2. Easypaisa(Pakistan) 3. Paytm(India) 4. Zomato(India) 5. bKash(Bangladesh) 6. Ascend Money (Thailand) 7. KakaoPay(South Korea) 8. GCash Inc.(Philippines) 9. Emtek(Indonesia) 10. Touch 'n Go eWallet(Malaysia) 11. Cheung Kong Hutchinson (Hong Kong SAR) 12. Vodacom(South Africa)
AKA: T.W.D.Y. About Ant Banks. Anthony Banks (born May 16, 1969), known simply as Ant Banks, is a producer and rapper from Oakland, California. He has collaborated with many well known...
The Big Badass is the second solo studio album by the American rapper and record producer Ant Banks. It was released on May 10, 1994 through Dangerous Music/Jive Records. Produced entirely by Banks himself, it features guest appearances from Ant Diddley Dog, Boots Riley, Goldy, Rappin' Ron, Spice 1, Too $hort and the rest of The ...
