Mr. Tang studied mathematics at Peking University, and gained a bachelor's degree in economics at the University of the South (Sewanee) in the US. In 2018, he was awarded the honorary doctorate degree of the University of the South (Sewanee) for his outstanding achievements in the fintech field. During his early career, Mr. Tang joined Wall Street investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Mr. Tang founded CreditEase in Beijing in 2006, a fintech conglomerate which specializes in inclusive finance and wealth management. CreditEase has served more than four million individual consumers, micro and small business owners, individual business operators and rural households in China, as well as more than one million mass affluent clients, high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. On December 18, 2015, Yiren Digital, CreditEase's subsidiary, was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:YRD), becoming the first fintech company IPO from China in the global capital markets.

Tang Ning served as a member of the standing committee of Renowned Enterprises Committee of All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, Chairman of Beijing Internet Finance Association, the member of Specialized Committee for Funds of Funds of China Securities Investment Fund Industry Association, the member of Global Leadership Committee of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and the director of Shanghai Finance Institute.