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

Forus Raised Less Money at Three Times the Price, Four Months Later

A $150m Series C at $3bn follows a $160m Series B at about $1bn in May. The founders sold roughly five per cent instead of sixteen.

9 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Finance

Mistral Raised €3 Billion. The Gigawatt by 2030 Is Not Funded Yet.

Mistral's Series D is led by Samsung at a valuation above €21 billion, nearly double last year's. The money is for compute, and TCS committed about $7.4 billion for a comparable gigawatt campus this month.

9 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Finance

Asian Chip Stocks Rallied on GPT-6 Astra. The Independent Index Scored It Flat.

MSCI Asia Pacific rose 1.3 per cent on compute-demand optimism. Artificial Analysis put Astra at 61, exactly its predecessor's score, at 2.5 times the token price.

8 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Finance

Foxconn's August Sales Rose 52 Per Cent. Its Gross Margin Still Fell.

AI servers passed half of revenue for the first time and the margin slipped to 6.12 per cent. An assembler books the accelerator's whole value and keeps the assembly fee.

7 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Finance

Malaysia banned the Rule of 78, and the Rule of 78 was never the expensive part

On Bank Negara's own worked example the Rule of 78 costs an early settler at most about RM632 on a RM100,000 loan. Reading a 3% flat rate as cheaper than a 5% effective rate costs RM2,621 on the same loan — four times as much, and it does not require settling early. The reform's real value is the mandatory EIR quote.

4 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Finance

Pichai Promised Gemini 3.5 Pro in June. Google Shipped Three Flash Models.

Alphabet entered September on its longest monthly losing streak since 2015. Flash is the small tier, and shipping three of them is not the flagship investors were told about.

4 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Finance

Dell's $95bn AI Backlog Exceeds Its $74bn Full-Year AI Guidance

Record revenue of $47bn and $60.9bn of AI orders against $16.4bn recognised. The order queue grew by about $44bn in three months, and full-year AI guidance is $74bn.

4 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Finance

Broadcom's AI Revenue Tripled to $16.70bn. The Stock Fell on a 0.66 Per Cent Miss.

AI chips reached $16.70bn, up 221 per cent, and the shares dropped 4.4 per cent because next quarter's guide came in about $230m under a consensus of $35.03bn.

4 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Finance

Tencent Is 84 Per Cent of the Revenue in Enflame's 6.1 Billion Yuan IPO

Two oversubscription figures are circulating for the same STAR Market listing. They count different tranches, both measure a lottery, and the price says something else.

3 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Finance

The South Asian number ladder that no two countries share

Lakh and crore are usually presented as one regional system continuing upward into arab and kharab. Take the ladder to four finance ministries and India compounds, Nepal climbs, Pakistan jumps to billion, and Bangladesh does neither.

3 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
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