Tencent Ordered to Restructure Financial Units

Similar to rival Ant Group, Tencent has also been ordered to set up a holding company to contain its finance-related businesses.

Regulators told Tencent to place its finance-related businesses into a new financial holdings company for better supervision, according to a Caixin report citing unnamed sources.

This follows a report last month that said top financial regulators summoned 13 tech giants – including Tencent – to discuss tighter restrictions across various areas including payments linked to financial products, customer data collection, and credit scoring services.

Tencent and its peers are following a similar path to that of Ant Group which was first to face restructuring to become a financial holding company after it was ordered to do so by China’s central bank.