Conference Circuit: Hasn T and Pawnshop Mentalities

conference circuit: The Financial Times on Friday reported that the showrunners of the Shark Tank-like Africa's Business Heroes replaced him as a judge in a November telecast and removed his photo from the show's website, around the same time Ma delivered his now-infamous rebuke of the pawnshop mentalities of government overseers. ; The flamboyant Ma long a fixture on the international conference circuit all but vanished from public view thereafter, according to The Japan Times. As of early December, the man most closely identified with the meteoric rise of China Inc. was advised by the government to stay in the country, a person familiar with the matter has said. Ma hasn't been seen in public since Chinese regulators torpedoed Ant's 35 billion IPO, then tightened fintech regulations and launched an antitrust probe into Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. all in a span of days. An Alibaba spokesperson said Ma couldn't attend due to scheduling conflicts, declining to comment specifically on the executive's whereabouts. The crackdown on Ma's companies has set in motion a string of regulatory decrees that threaten to reshape the landscape for China's online operators. Ma may have his hands full dealing with escalating scrutiny. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.