{"id":13494,"date":"2019-08-19T21:16:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T21:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=13494"},"modified":"2019-08-19T21:16:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T21:16:35","slug":"china-s-techfin-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/china-s-techfin-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s TechFin giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese tech firms are moving into the banking sector in a much different way then their Western counterparts. Whereas Western BigTechs like Amazon and Google seem content in serving financial institutions with cloud features and advertising, Chinese ones like Tencent and Alibaba seem far more interested in competing with financial institutions. For example, Tencent\u2019s WeBank was China\u2019s first private digital-only bank, one that made a net profit of USD 210 million with a return-on-equity of 19.2% in 2017, just its 2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> year of operation. In fact, a recent stake sale of the bank valued it at USD 21 billion, making it one of the world\u2019s largest \u201cunicorn\u201d companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, Alibaba\u2019s Ant Financial offers a number of products and services, including: Alipay, the largest mobile wallet in the world; Yue\u2019Bao, the largest money market fund in the world; MYBank, an online lender for small businesses; Ant Fortune, a wealth management service; and Zhao Cai Bao, an investment marketplace. 6 months ago, they also launched a new health insurance service that has gained 50 million customers already and aims for 300 million within its first two years of operations. Ant Financial was valued at USD 150 billion in 2018, making it the 10<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> largest financial firm in the world in only its 5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> year of operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There might not be the massive global change in banking that some soothsayers have been predicting, but there is likely to be one in China as tech companies rewrite how consumers interact with everything financial.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-13494 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Alfa-Bank leading Belarus into a fintech future'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/alfa-bank-leading-belarus-into-a-fintech-future\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fast-arrow-design_1017-9650-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-8570\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fast-arrow-design_1017-9650-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fast-arrow-design_1017-9650-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fast-arrow-design_1017-9650.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-8570'>\n\t\t\t\tAlfa-Bank leading Belarus into a fintech future\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Snapshot of biometrics across the world'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/snapshot-of-biometrics-across-the-world\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/snapshot-of-biometrics-across-the-world-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-14542\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-14542'>\n\t\t\t\tSnapshot of biometrics across the world\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Infographic: 2017 Consumer Cybersecurity Confidence Index'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/infographic-2017-consumer-cybersecurity-confidence-index\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rsa-consumer-cyber-security-featured-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-11078\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-11078'>\n\t\t\t\tInfographic: 2017 Consumer Cybersecurity Confidence Index\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese tech firms are moving into the banking sector in a much different way then their Western counterparts. Whereas Western BigTechs like Amazon and Google seem content in serving financial institutions with cloud features and advertising, Chinese ones like Tencent and Alibaba seem far more interested in competing with financial institutions. For example, Tencent\u2019s WeBank &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[345,10],"tags":[449,77,35,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13495,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13494\/revisions\/13495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}