Yuebao
Alibaba’s online mutual fund Yu’ebao dips to historic lows
Alibaba’s Yu’ebao money market fund sank below 3 percent yield for the first time ever. What gives?
C. Custer · · 2 min read
Xiaomi’s money market fund rolls out of beta, to take on Alibaba and Tencent
Like Baidu and Alibaba, Xiaomi is eyeing China’s finance industry and seeing dollar signs. Today the company is officially launching a money-market fund called Huoqibao inside a new standalone app
Josh Horwitz · · 3 min read
Alibaba-affiliated money market fund Yu’ebao users hit 185 million for 2014
Big demand for leftover treasure.
Josh Horwitz · · 2 min read
China’s booming online finance market starts to lose momentum
Products like online mutual funds, peer-to-peer loans, and insurance only showed 2 percent growth in the second half of last year.
Paul Bischoff · · 2 min readAlibaba’s online mutual fund Yuebao is actually shrinking
Alibaba’s mutual fund Yuebao garnered a lot of attention when it first launched last summer, and at first, it grew extremely fast. But by this July, it had begun to
C. Custer · · 2 min readAlibaba’s financial arm earns approval to open a private bank
The Chinese ecommerce giant continues to get serious about entering the banking sector.
Josh Horwitz · · 2 min read1 year and $92 billion later, Alibaba’s massive mutual fund starts to stagnate
Yuebao now holds RMB 574 billion (US$92 billion) in assets. That makes it the fourth-largest money market fund in the world.
Paul Bischoff · · 2 min readHow does Alibaba respond when China cracks down on investment products? It launches another investment product.
Chinese tech giant Alibaba rolled out its second investment-themed offering today, and it’s probably not what followers of the company expected. Inside the Taobao mobile app, Alibaba has introduced a
Josh Horwitz · · 3 min readTencent versus Alibaba: a complete guide to an increasingly fierce rivalry (INFOGRAPHIC)
Tencent (HKG:0700) is the world’s fourth largest web company, and Alibaba is on the verge of history’s largest tech IPO. Both of these behemoth companies occupy many of the same verticals
Paul Bischoff · · 2 min readAfter last week’s clampdown, China reportedly considering tough regulations on online payments
A user of Alibaba’s Alipay adds their credit card into the ewallet app. (Image: Alipay) Late last week, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) moved to curb the rapid growth
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