Sarah Chew covers Southeast Asia’s technology, fintech, digital policy, and AI adoption landscape for RECATOOLS. Her work focuses on how regulation, platform shifts, and emerging technologies affect businesses, consumers, and digital markets across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

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Finance

Why a Pay Rise Won't Grow Your Pension

The OECD says Thailand's pension replaces 41.5% of an average wage and 20.7% of twice that. Singapore falls from 57.6% to 33.0%. The Philippines, Indonesia and Viet Nam do not move at all. One number — the contribution ceiling divided by the average wage — predicts which is which, for all six.

30 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Workers on a production line, the labour a robot tax is intended to make more expensive to replace
Finance

Bill Gates Wants a Robot Tax Again, Nine Years After the First Time

The reserved-jobs proposal has no mechanism attached. The argument underneath it is sharper: a business writes off a robot immediately and pays payroll tax on a person every year, so the code already favours one over the other.

30 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Finance

Korea's Wrtn Raised at 1 Trillion Won, Reported as Three Different Valuations

The same Series C has appeared as over $722m, over $760m and about $870m. The won figure is the fact and the dollar figures are conversions taken on different days, which is worth knowing before comparing it to anything.

30 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Finance

Marvell Beat Expectations and Fell 8%. The $120bn Arrives in 2029.

The figure is the ceiling at which a warrant's performance tranche vests through fiscal 2033, not committed revenue. Management now says Google money becomes substantially meaningful in fiscal 2029.

29 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Finance

Anthropic Will Tell IPO Investors Its Market Is Worth $30 Trillion

A total addressable market is the maximum a company could earn if it captured every customer and no rival took any share. Anthropic's is reportedly above $30 trillion, which tops the figure SpaceX used and is roughly the size of US annual GDP.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Finance

Vietnam Salary Deductions Explained (2026): New Tax Brackets, Insurance and Take-Home Pay

Your tax bill fell in January 2026, not July — on a ₫30,000,000 salary that is ₫450,000 a month. Seven brackets became five, the personal deduction rose to ₫15.5 million, and most coverage reports the wrong start date.

29 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
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Finance

Nvidia Paused Its Cloud Financing Programme in Under Two Months

The scheme lent credit support to AI clouds and took a share of the revenue their Nvidia capacity earned. It stopped because Nvidia's own employees warned customers about antitrust exposure.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Finance

Philippine Salary Deductions Explained (2026): SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG and Tax

Your offer says ₱30,000 and your payslip says ₱26,542.45. Here is exactly where the rest goes — the three contributions that are not tax, the one that is, and why the taxman looks at ₱27,550 rather than ₱30,000.

29 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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Finance

SoftBank Is Refinancing Its OpenAI Bet for the Fourth Time

A $40bn bridge, a $10-20bn bond sale, a record ¥1tn retail issue and a $10bn margin loan against the stake itself. The yield the bonds fetch will be the first independent verdict on this risk.

27 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Finance

Broadcom Guaranteed The Resale Value Of Its Own Chips To Get A $35bn Loan Priced

The AI XPV platform raised debt through a vehicle that buys accelerators and leases them to Anthropic. A deficiency guarantee and a residual value backstop from Broadcom took the senior tranches to about 5.75 per cent.

23 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
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