Ant Group has reportedly not supplied the $73.5m in funding it pledged for the mobile wallet developer Wave a year ago.

Ant Group, the financial services affiliate of e-commerce group Alibaba, has failed to provide the $73.5m investment in Myanmar-based capital transfer service Wave Money announced in May 2020, DealStreetAsia reported yesterday.

Wave provides a mobile wallet which also offers utility bill and phone credit top-ups as well as remittance for small businesses.

The Ant investment was meant to have been closed by the end of last month, a date which had already been extended three times, but the company…

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Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.