SoftBank Vision fund to invest $100m in JV with China's ZhongAn

SoftBank Vision fund to invest $100m in JV with China's ZhongAn

Pedestrians walk past a SoftBank Group Corp. store in Tokyo, Japan. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi

Japan’s SoftBank Group will invest just over $100 million in a joint venture with the international arm of China’s ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance, a ZhongAn executive said.

SoftBank’s giant Vision Fund will own 51 percent of the venture that aims to sell the Chinese firm’s technology to financial and healthcare firms in Asia-Pacific. ZhongAn will have a 49 percent stake in the venture, which will have an initial capital of $200 million.

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