The Alibaba Group affiliate is looking at excluding its blockchain, database management services and international businesses from a main entity that will be used to apply for a financial holding license in China, the Bloomberg report said.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 1.2% in early Asian trade, weighed down by drops of 1.5% in Hong Kong, 0.8% in resources-heavy Australia and 1.6% in South Korea. Japan's Nikkei fell 1.2%.
Jack Ma, founder of Ant Group, finds himself in a situation where the registration for Ant's $35 billion initial public offering is set to officially expire Wednesday after China snuffed out the biggest IPO in history.