Behind the scenes of the Ant Group IPO sponsor list

And the joint global coordinator is C█████ Sui███?

Euromoney has moaned before about the absurd level of redaction in Hong Kong listing prospectuses, but we think Ant Group set a new level of petulance in redacting the joint global coordinator line from their filing.

The joint sponsors are there, and the financial adviser, but the line between? [REDACTED].

Still, maybe there’s a reason. The joint sponsor list – Citi, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and CICC – attracted great interest, not just because of who was on it, but who wasn’t.

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