Alibaba Group's fintech arm Ant Group, operator of Alipay, has appointed Ni Xingjun as its new chief technology officer, the company said in a statement to Reuters.
Ni is one of the company's earliest achitects, and his predecessor, Hu Xi, will move to a new appointment, the firm added, without giving details.
(This story corrects paragraph 1 name of new official to Ni Xingjun)
(Reporting by Yingzhi Yang in Beijing and Brenda Goh in Shanghai; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
