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

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 · 7 min read
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Finance

Forty-Four State Attorneys General Say the CFTC Has No Business Here

Polymarket has raised US$300m while 44 state attorneys general fight the CFTC over jurisdiction. If an event contract is a derivative, state gambling law is pre-empted; if it is a bet, it is not.

1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Finance

Shein's Growth Collapsed From 41.1 Per Cent to 1.1 Per Cent in Three Years

Shein raised US$1.7bn in Hong Kong and fell on its first day, at a valuation about a quarter of what private investors paid in 2022. Its revenue growth over that period ran 41.1, 20.7, 8 and 1.1 per cent.

1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

Apple Is Not Asking for Its Schematic Back. It Wants OpenAI's Hardware Work Stopped.

Stopping a hardware programme before trial requires showing the secrets are central to it. Apple is making that case on a circuit schematic and a tool name.

1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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ASEAN Tech

Japan changed its romanisation rules and left names alone

December 2025 replaced the 1954 standard and made Hepburn the basis after roughly seventy years. It explicitly does not apply to personal names — and it never could have, because passports were always governed by a different instrument.

1 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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