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.

About this byline

Daniel Koh is a RECATOOLS editorial persona for finance and digital-economy analysis. Articles are produced and reviewed under RECATOOLS editorial supervision.

Editorial responsibility for this byline rests with Jeffrey Tan (Tan Seng Fei), RECASYS, Singapore. Our Editorial Policy sets out how sources are reviewed, how AI-assisted workflows are used, and how editorial desks and personas are defined.

105
Articles
Finance
Primary beat
May 2026
Writing since
~721 min
Total reading
All 105 Finance 62 Business 23 ASEAN Tech 17 Sustainability 3

Articles · Finance Showing 11–20 of 62

The Singapore central business district skyline seen across the water from the Marina Bay waterfront
Finance

One Deal Was Two Thirds of Singapore's Fintech Funding This Half

The report says investment moderated. Money fell by two thirds while global fintech funding rose 43 per cent, and a single payments round accounts for most of what did arrive.

31 Aug 2026 · 7 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
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 South Korean city at night with apartment towers and an elevated expressway, illustrating a report on record shareholder returns from Samsung and SK Hynix.
Finance

Samsung And SK Hynix Are Handing Back More Than They Are Building With

Samsung expects shareholder returns of 90 to 110 trillion won this year, the largest ever by a Korean company. SK Hynix is cancelling 40 trillion won of its own shares. Both are running the same AI memory boom, and both have decided the cash outruns the capex.

22 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A printed bar chart in shades of blue lying on a desk, illustrating a report on the concentration of Southeast Asian AI startup funding.
Finance

Southeast Asia's Record AI Year Funded Fewer Companies Than 2024

US$4.1bn sounds like a boom until you count the deals: 23 rounds this year against 41 last year and 35 before that. One Series D is about 68 per cent of the money, and it is the second regional dataset this year with that exact shape.

20 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Glass office towers photographed from below against fog, illustrating a report on Nvidia's AI compute financing platforms.
Finance

Nvidia Arranges US$500 Billion of Third-Party Financing for Its Own Hardware

Six of the largest asset managers and investment banks will raise capital for AI infrastructure built on Nvidia hardware. None of it sits on Nvidia's balance sheet, and the agreements are memoranda rather than facilities.

17 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
A printed financial statement on a desk, illustrating a report on hyperscaler lease obligations that sit in the notes rather than the balance sheet.
Finance

Big Tech Has Signed US$725 Billion of Leases That Are Not on the Balance Sheet

Five hyperscalers have disclosed about US$1.2 trillion of lease obligations, of which US$725 billion has not yet commenced and therefore sits in the notes rather than the balance sheet. Goldman expects roughly 35 per cent of 2027 AI capex to be debt-funded.

16 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A modern glass office building, illustrating a report on reported private equity takeover talks for the software company Workday.
Finance

Workday Jumped a Fifth on a Report, Which Says Something About Its Price

Reuters reported Silver Lake has been in talks for months to take Workday private. The shares rose 19.9 per cent and were halted for volatility, adding US$8.6 billion. No deal, no price, no comment from either party.

16 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A pocket calculator and a pen resting on printed financial statements marked with pink, orange and yellow highlighter, with paper clips scattered beside them and a handwritten note circled on the page.
Finance

What Our Payslip Tool Will Not Tell You

Our payslip decoder describes 39 lines across Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia and declines to give you a figure in 6 of them. Three of those refusals are overtime, in all three countries, for one reason: the rates move and nothing here could keep them current.

15 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A laptop screen showing a line chart and a pie chart, illustrating a report on Anthropic quarterly revenue and profit disclosure.
Finance

Anthropic Gave Its Revenue a Number. Its Profit Got an Adjective.

Preliminary second-quarter revenue of more than US$11.5 billion, a fourteen-fold rise, and the first quarter of positive adjusted operating income. Revenue got a figure; profit got a direction. The US$559 million everyone is quoting is the May projection, not the result.

15 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Editorial Policy →
Advertisement