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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ASEAN Tech

The Philippines Gets Its First Big AI Cluster in 2027

The deployment takes Aolani past 48,000 accelerators and 100 megawatts. The split between the two countries, the sites and the money are all undisclosed.

23 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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Business

Temasek's Xora Led $53m Into Four-Month-Old Consultancy Hang Ten

Hang Ten has raised $85m since May and employs about 25 people. The bet is that enterprise AI is now held back by delivery, not by models.

17 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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ASEAN Tech

DBS, OCBC and UOB Ran Tokenised SGD Over Swift's Ledger. Existing Systems Settled It.

Singapore's three largest banks completed the first live interbank transactions with tokenised deposits on 10 September. The blockchain matched and netted; old systems settled.

15 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

The Pentagon May Lend $5bn for Data-Centre Parts, Not Data Centres

The Office of Strategic Capital would be making its largest single loan, aimed at the component bottleneck rather than the building everyone photographs.

13 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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Business

CXMT Took a Tenth of the DRAM Market. It Has No HBM to Sell.

Real relief for server and phone memory, and none at all for the shortage raising AI accelerator prices. The incumbents' pivot to HBM is what made the room.

13 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

The Philippines Plans 1.5 Gigawatts by 2033. It Has 50 Megawatts Now.

A $34.4 billion masterplan, 61 per cent of it from private investors who have not committed. Next door, Laos approved $8.5 billion this year and received $1.06 billion.

12 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
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Business

Legal AI's Harvey Is Worth 39 Times Its Revenue, and at Least It Has Revenue

$550m at about $15.5bn, with ARR past $400m and 80 per cent of the top 100 law firms as customers. Most AI valuations at this level carry no revenue figure at all.

11 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

TCS Committed $7.4 Billion to a Hyderabad AI Campus. It Did Not Commit to a Gigawatt.

HyperVault has the land, the money and a June 2028 inauguration date. It has not published a first-phase capacity, a grid connection date, or any number behind the water-neutral claim.

7 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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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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Finance

Moonshot's $50bn Valuation Is the Smallest of China's Three Model Labs

The Hong Kong filing seeks about $3bn. DeepSeek is marked near $74bn and Z.AI near $66bn, and the $50bn figure came from a private round rather than a public order book.

4 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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