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How Ant Financial is transforming the Chinese payments industry

  • Ant Financial has created a financial services ecosystem by zeroing in on two things fintech largely lacks: social payments, and as a result, alternative data
  • China is an example of how digital finance and alternative data can help bring more consumers into the ecosystem as well as new business to improve the overall economy
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