Regulators fined Alibaba a record $2.8 billion over the weekend for stifling competition in online retail, then met with affiliate Ant on Monday and ordered it to restructure as a financial holding company.
Then on Tuesday, the State Administration for Market Regulation warned 34 Chinese internet platforms in a meeting to learn from the crackdown on Alibaba and submit a plan for compliance with anti-monopoly practices within a month.
Chinese regulators have focused their attention in recent months on Jack Ma s e-commerce giant and its fintech affiliate Ant Group, whose giant IPO was abruptly suspended in November. Authorities had begun investigating Alibaba in December, primarily for a practice of forcing merchants to choose one of two platforms, rather than allowing them to work with both.
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