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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An aerial view of an industrial facility with loading bays, the park model the two countries built over thirty years
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
A weathered black-and-yellow sign above a car park entrance reading ENTRANCE, CLEARANCE 6 feet 3 inches.
Finance

Thailand Raised Your Social Security Deduction. It Also Raised Your Pension.

The wage ceiling had not moved since 1995. On 1 January 2026 it went from THB 15,000 to THB 17,500, and it is scheduled to move twice more. The most anyone pays is THB 125 a month extra — which, run through the pension formula, buys THB 500 a month for life.

30 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
A wireless router with three antennas, the hardware category the Huawei and HP Wi-Fi patent licence covers
Business

Huawei and HP Ended a Lawsuit, and Announced a Partnership

The Wi-Fi 7 cross-licence settles a case Huawei filed at the Unified Patent Court in August 2025. Reporting says HP pays a balancing fee, which is what happens when cross-licensed portfolios are unequal.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A rocket lifting off from a coastal launch pad, engines lit through the exhaust plume.
Business

SpaceX's 125,000 Louisiana Acres Are About Regulatory Headroom

SpaceX will build a $100bn launch complex on 125,000 acres of former Exxon land on Louisiana's southern coast, with operations from 2030. The acreage is less about room for pads than about distance from objectors.

27 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A wide view across Seoul's apartment blocks and office towers, with forested mountains behind.
Business

South Korea's 800 Trillion Won Budget Is Not a Budget Yet

The cabinet approves it on 1 September and the Assembly has yet to pass it. The dollar figure reported ranges across $46bn purely on the exchange rate, and the revenue funding it is the most cyclical in industry.

25 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A close-up of a humanoid robot's face moulded in pale plastic, with dark eyes and a fine seam at the mouth.
Business

XPeng's Robot Unit Raised $900m at $6.3bn Before Selling Anything

IDG led, with Tencent and Alibaba strategic. The company calls it China's largest single-round private embodied-AI financing — a claim carrying four qualifiers, and the real bet is on control software, not hardware.

25 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A macro photograph of a green printed circuit board showing surface-mount components and silkscreen reference labels.
Business

A Judge Vacated Seven Espionage Counts Against a Google Engineer. Seven Theft Counts Stand.

The element prosecutors could not prove was that Linwei Ding knew his theft would benefit the Chinese state. Nationality and destination did not establish it, and the surviving charge is the narrower one.

24 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
Illustrative: the Lower Manhattan skyline seen across the water on a clear day.
Business

New York Passed The Bay Area On Tech Jobs, Partly Because The Bay Area Shrank

394,300 against 375,730 in CBRE's annual count, the first reversal in the survey's history. It measures where technology workers are employed, which is not the same as where the direction gets set.

24 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Tower cranes around a steel-framed building under construction on a large site, illustrating a report on data centre capital expenditure passing one trillion dollars.
Finance

Data Centre Capex Will Pass A Trillion Dollars This Year

Dell'Oro puts global data centre capital expenditure above US$1tn in 2026. The five largest hyperscalers account for more than US$600bn of it, up 36 per cent, with roughly three quarters going to AI infrastructure.

22 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A plain white takeaway coffee cup on a cafe counter, illustrating a report on ZUS Coffee exploring a Malaysian listing.
Business

ZUS Coffee Beat Starbucks In Malaysia. Now It Has To Price What It Is.

An IPO exploring at least RM1bn at a valuation near RM4bn would test whether an app-first coffee chain is read as a retailer or as something with a technology multiple. It reached 1,000 outlets before deciding.

22 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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