Eric Xiandong Jing is CEO of Ant Financial Services Group, the online finance arm of the Alibaba Group. He served as CFO of Alipay for five years before taking over Ant Financial, which now runs Alipay. Ant provides millions of people who are unbanked with the tools to save, invest, manage risk, and access credit in ways that help empower them. He is credited with developing a suite of online banking services available to even the poorest people in China. Jing also helped launch MYbank, a private online bank in China dedicated to providing inclusive and innovative financial solutions for individuals and small and micro enterprises in urban and rural areas. In addition, he instigated the “Internet Accelerator” project, which works to partner with 1,000 traditional financial institutions and help them transition to the Internet.