China tech giants line up for billion dollar funding splurge

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Leading Chinese technology firms including Alibaba Group Holdings, its affiliate Ant Financial and Tencent have swept into the loan market and are said to be seeking a collective $13bn-$14bn. Given their acquisitive tendencies, their latest fundraisings have found strong support from relationship lenders, despite political risks surrounding some of the targets, writes Shruti Chaturvedi.