T he founder of London fintech WorldFirst has quit the firm days after telling the Standard he was satisfied with its risk management practices amid reports he questioned a governance shake-up by its Chinese owners. Jonathan Quin, who launched the international payments business in 2004 and sold it to billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Group in 2019 in a $700 million deal, departed its board this week to spend more time on “personal pursuits”, Ant said. Earlier this year, Ant shifted the majority of WorldFirst’s business away from UK regulators in a major restructuring. WorldFirst Asia, a business unit which accounted...