[eunos]

Do you think it's better for China's regulator to rein them before the IPO (with delaying the said IPO) or after the IPO? if the regulators rein them after the IPO, the stocks gonna crash for sure and people will speculate that the regulators might play insider trading or simply cheat international investors.

[afjl]

They should have reined them in long before the IPO date this week, when they were supposed to be doing their due diligence and assessing the risk that ANT's lending practices pose.

The decision to do so after this PR broadside from Jack Ma appears (to some) as a political statement, and not truly policy-based regulation.