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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A candlestick price chart on a trading screen, representing the quarter in which Nvidia paused its cloud financing programme
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
Hands over a document being signed across a desk, illustrating a report on a compute-collateralised financing structure backed by Broadcom guarantees.
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
Gloved hands holding a green circuit board on an electronics production line, illustrating a report on high-bandwidth memory pricing and supply.
Finance

The Memory Bolted To Your AI Chip Now Costs More Than You Think

HBM3 runs about US$200 a stack, HBM3E US$300 and HBM4 an estimated US$550, with HBM3E contract prices up around 20 per cent in a quarter. Three suppliers, no substitute, and qualification cycles measured in months.

21 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Chess pieces arranged on a board in black and white, illustrating a report on a chip supply deal structured around equity warrants.
Finance

Marvell Is Paying Google In Warrants To Keep Buying Its Chips

Google gets the right to almost 59 million shares at US$206.58, vesting in tranches tied to every US$500m of chips it purchases. That is a volume rebate paid in equity, and the US$120bn figure describes the incentive.

21 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Finance

What a Tuition Total Leaves Out

Our own calculator says a four-year degree costs $54,400, and discloses that it excludes fee changes between years. We measured what that clause costs: $4,218 at a 5% annual rise, and more than a full term once a six-year course rises 3.2% a year.

18 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Close-up of a gold-coloured microprocessor, illustrating a report on Nvidia holding large equity stakes in two of its chip customers.
Finance

Nvidia Now Owns Large Stakes in Two of Its Biggest Customers

A disclosure on Friday put 122.8 million SpaceX shares worth about US$21 billion, and roughly US$30 billion of Intel, on Nvidia's books. Together they are close to 80 per cent of its disclosed portfolio, and both companies buy its chips.

16 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Close-up of a printed circuit board, illustrating a report on Intel raising US$20 billion largely against advanced packaging capacity.
Finance

Intel Asked for US$15 Billion. The Orders Came to US$100 Billion.

Intel planned a US$15 billion raise, took orders above US$100 billion, and priced US$20 billion at US$95 a share. Three of the four growth areas it named are manufacturing, which is what the demand is really pricing.

15 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Finance

Databricks Raised $5 Billion. Its CEO Says AGI Arrived and Changed Nothing.

A US$190 billion valuation on a US$7 billion run-rate, and a chief executive arguing that AGI has been reached, that it is not superintelligence, and that the world is largely unchanged apart from the inference bill.

14 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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