According to relevant sources, if the financing amount is consistent with the target, the valuation of Ant Financial may be as high as 654.38+02 billion US dollars, nearly twice the value of the last round of financing nearly two years ago. By then, Ant Financial will become the largest unicorn in the world.
Prior to this, Alibaba will acquire a 33% stake in Ant Financial through its China subsidiary, which is regarded as a signal that Ant Financial will launch an IPO. 20 15 So far, Ant Financial has raised at least five times, but why did it choose to go public at this time?
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20 17 14 July to 15 June, the national financial work conference was held, which emphasized the general tone of financial security, striving for progress in stability and the construction of financial legal system. 165438+1October 2 1 day, the Office of the Leading Group for the Special Remediation of Internet Financial Risks issued the Notice on Immediately Stopping the Examination and Approval of Online Microfinance Companies, demanding that the examination and approval of online microfinance licenses be stopped urgently.
65438+February 1, "cash loan" supervision is implemented. The Office of the Leading Group for Special Remediation of Internet Financial Risks and the Office of the Leading Group for Special Remediation of P2P Online Loan Risks jointly issued the Notice on Standardizing and Rectifying Cash Loan Business, setting three thresholds for the industry, with a comprehensive interest rate below 36%, license plates and on-site support.
On February 1 2065 438, Alipay announced that in order to prevent the excessive growth of Yu 'ebao's money market fund and maintain its long-term stable operation, Sailai Stica Fund Management Co., Ltd. will adjust Yu 'ebao's service rules from February 1 2065438 to March 15 2065438, and set the total daily subscription amount. In the meantime, the automatic transfer-in function is suspended, and the user can try to manually transfer in at 9:00 the next day.
The whole industry has tightened. As the leader of Internet finance, Ant Financial can't help but feel that the winter is coming.
The two small loan companies, Ant Microfinance (the main business in North China) and Ant Commercial Loan (the main business in borrowing), issued asset-backed securities products, with a scale of 250 billion yuan, accounting for half of the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets.
As of June last year, the total on-balance-sheet liabilities in North China reached 654.38+04.433 billion yuan, including 654.38+02 billion yuan in bank loans; The total on-balance-sheet liabilities in North China reached 7.52 billion yuan, including bank loans of 365.438+0.4 billion yuan. However, the total registered capital of the two companies is only 3.8 billion yuan. If calculated according to ABS report, the leverage ratio is more than 80 times, which is much higher than the 2.3 times required by Chongqing Financial Office.
By the end of June, 20 17, Ant North China had achieved an operating income of1400 million yuan and a net profit of 102 billion yuan. It is reported that the ant flower garden has stepped out of the Alibaba platform and realized the interconnection with more than 40 external consumer platforms such as Vipshop and Amazon. In addition, according to the data disclosed by Ant Financial, the net profit of borrowers in the first three quarters has reached 4.5 billion yuan.
Consumer finance, especially cash loans, is the main profit source of Ant Financial Services at this stage. Faced with greater regulatory pressure, Ant Financial must plan for its future.
Ant Financial was initiated by Alipay in 2004. On March 20 13, Zhejiang Alibaba Agel e-commerce co., ltd, the parent company of AliPay, announced the establishment of micro-financial service group to provide financial services for it. On 20 14 10 16, Ant Financial was formally established to provide safe and convenient inclusive finance services for consumers and small and micro enterprises all over the world.
At present, there are Alipay, Yu 'ebao, Magic Weapon, Ant Bao, Online Banking, Ant Flower Garden, Sesame Credit, Ant Financial Cloud, Ant and so on.
Ant Financial's business line is around Alipay. After Ant Financial occupied the third-party payment portal, relying on the massive data accumulated by Taobao e-commerce platform, it built a consumer finance empire based on the credit system.
In the field of mobile payment, WeChat payment is a strong competitor of Alipay. On the surface, both companies are fighting in the field of payment, but behind it is the ecological dispute between Ali and Tencent. They all have the ambition to occupy the first place, and the subsidy war between them is also one after another.
The contest between online and offline has spread from the competition for consumers, commercial outlets, commodities and supply chains to the competition for the entire financial business. Because it occupies the main traffic entrance, Ant Financial has the advantage of personal consumer finance, but Tencent's Weizhong Bank also has very good consumer finance products to use. By focusing on online and 2B, Baidu Finance is a rising star.
JD。 JD.COM Bao Bei, the first supply chain financial product of COM, has established service relationships with nearly 2,000 suppliers, and the trade volume of enterprises financing in JD.COM has also increased by more than 200%. Giants are all good at their own fields. They are secretly fighting with each other. They may overtake at any time.
Previously, Ant Financial's plan to acquire Moneygram, the world's second largest remittance company, was not approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), and the overseas M&A plan was once blocked due to financial and data security problems in the United States.
Due to the influence of many factors, such as policy supervision, industry competition, sea obstacles, etc., Ant Financial had to choose to go public at this time in order to get a slice of the capital market when the industry winter came.