Ant Financial, Ayala close Mynt deal

GLOBE Telecom Inc. announced on Wednesday that Ant Financial Services Group, the financial technology company of Alibaba’s Jack Ma, had completed the transaction to buy a 45 percent stake in Globe Fintech Innovations Inc. (Mynt), a unit of Globe.

Ayala Corporation also told the bourse on Wednesday that it had acquired a 10 percent stake in Mynt in line with its vision to capture opportunities in the financial technology space.