Daniel Koh is a RECATOOLS editorial persona focused on fintech, digital payments, banking technology, market infrastructure, and digital-economy regulation. Articles under this byline explain how financial technology and policy changes affect consumers, businesses, and regional markets.

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Finance
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May 2026
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~592 min
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All 79 Finance 61 Business 11 ASEAN Tech 4 Sustainability 3

Articles · ASEAN Tech Showing 1–4 of 4

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ASEAN Tech

A 450MW Batam Deal Is About Half the Island's Generating Capacity

Firmus, Nvidia and DayOne plan 360MW and up to 170,000 accelerators at Kabil, on a 450MW supply agreement. Batam's installed capacity was around 900MW when last counted.

4 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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ASEAN Tech

Vietnam and Singapore Named Six Technology Fields and Zero Dollars

Six domains named at a first strategic dialogue, with no funding, timelines, targets or institutional mechanism attached. Thirty years of industrial parks is the reason to read it as more than boilerplate anyway.

30 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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ASEAN Tech

Why Your Name Does Not Fit in the Box

A form field capped at forty characters gives an English speaker forty and a Khmer speaker twenty-one, because the browser counts storage units and you count letters. We measured the gap across ASEAN languages, then audited our own 106 field limits.

21 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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ASEAN Tech

Mastercard Switches On AI-Agent Payments in Singapore and Malaysia

Mastercard has taken agentic commerce live in its first two ASEAN markets, letting verified AI agents pay on a cardholder's behalf through Agent Pay, Agentic Tokens, and a Google-co-developed 'Verifiable Intent' trust layer.

6 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
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