MariBank Is Exporting a Model That Has Not Worked at Home Yet
Sea's Singapore digital bank lost S$55.6 million in 2025 and has about three years of its profitability window left. It...
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An AI Data Centre Pact for Four ASEAN Markets, With No Capacity, Cost or Date
A SoftBank subsidiary, a Singapore developer and a Malaysian HPC firm will build AI data centres in Malaysia, Thailand,...
Manus Moved to Singapore. Beijing Blocked the Sale Anyway.
Meta is unwinding a US$2 billion acquisition that Chinese regulators blocked, and users have until 23 August to save the...
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Vietnam's High-Risk AI List Takes Effect Tomorrow. Compliance Is Not a Defence.
Six sectors, mandatory conformity assessment, local presence for foreign providers - and strict liability for damages ev...
Indonesia Wants a Gigawatt. Singapore's Entire Market Is 1.46.
Zankore targets a gigawatt of AI computing capacity within three years, starting with 200MW at Batang in 2027. Set again...
CoreWeave Is Building 360MW in Indonesia. It Will Own the Compute.
Three facilities, 360 megawatts, online in 2028. The buildings will be in Indonesia and the machines inside them will be...
Sixty-One Years Against the Odds. Majulah Singapura, and Go Beyond.
Singapore turns 61 today, and the reasonable forecast in 1965 was failure. Rather than assert that the country has done...
Indonesia Switched On a Marketplace Tax. Four Days Later It Switched It Off.
Indonesia's four largest marketplaces began withholding 0.5% of seller turnover on 1 August. The finance minister postpo...
Two MPs Asked What the Johor Rail Link Does to Singapore Retail. The Numbers Come Later
The government says the RTS Link brings net benefits and that its taskforce reports later this year. The projected effec...
ASEAN Signs One Digital Rulebook in November. Its Members Keep Writing Their Own
DEFA negotiations concluded in May and signature is set for November. In the ten weeks between, five member states legis...
Thailand Now Makes Data Centres Prove the Power Exists Before Approving Them
Since 30 March, a data-centre developer seeking Thai investment privileges must file a letter from the energy regulator...
ASEAN Tech Summit Convenes in Manila as the Region's Digital Trade Pact Heads for a November Signing
Organisers expected more than 4,000 delegates in Pasay City on 28–29 July, under the Philippine chairship. Negotiations...
Southeast Asia's Tech Funding More Than Doubled. Take Out One Data-Centre Company and It Shrank
The region raised $7.4 billion in the first half, against $3.2 billion a year earlier. One Singapore data-centre operato...
MAS's SAFR Framework Puts the Safeguard Where the Money Moves — At the Point an AI Agent Acts
Singapore's MAS and industry partners published SAFR on 3 July, a voluntary framework that governs AI agents in finance...
MAS Is Building an Institute to End the Pilot Era — Singapore's Bet That the Hard Part of Fintech Is Deployment
MAS announced on 25 June it will establish a Future of Finance Institute to move AI and tokenisation from experiments to...
Igloo Buys Eazy Digital in Its Second Thailand Move in a Year — a Bet on Insurtech Consolidation
Singapore insurtech Igloo has acquired Eazy Digital, a Singapore-headquartered insurtech with operations across Thailand...
MAS Opens an AI-Themed 2026 Global FinTech Hackcelerator and SFF Excellence Awards
On 29 June 2026, the Monetary Authority of Singapore opened applications for the 2026 Global FinTech Hackcelerator and t...
Vietnam Calls for a Connected ASEAN Fintech Ecosystem at the AFF 2026 — but the Standards Are the Hard Part
At an ASEAN Future Forum 2026 seminar in Hanoi, Vietnam's Deputy PM Nguyen Van Thang urged the region to connect its fin...
Even Apple Reportedly Rents Its AI: What WWDC 2026's Day One Signals for ASEAN Businesses
The standout signal from Apple's WWDC 2026 day-one keynote isn't Siri AI's new tricks — it's that the most vertically in...
Singapore Bets on Being AI's Neutral Ground — Just as US Chip Rules Put the Middle Under Scrutiny
As Singapore AI Week and SuperAI 2026 open with a pitch to be 'neutral ground' for a fracturing AI industry, fresh US ch...
Indonesia’s AI Ready ASEAN Pact Turns AI Literacy Into Regional Infrastructure
Indonesia’s new AI Ready ASEAN agreement with the ASEAN Foundation shows how AI adoption in Southeast Asia is becoming a...
Mastercard Switches On AI-Agent Payments in Singapore and Malaysia
Mastercard has taken agentic commerce live in its first two ASEAN markets, letting verified AI agents pay on a cardholde...
Singapore is spending to make 12,000 SMEs AI- and cyber-ready. Here is what they actually need.
IMDA has lined up Grab and RSM to bring AI training and cyber drills to 12,000 small businesses. I have built tools for...
Sea's three engines fire at once: Shopee, Monee and Garena drive a 47 per cent revenue jump
Singapore's Sea Limited posted first-quarter revenue of US$7.1 billion, up 47 per cent, as its e-commerce, fintech and g...
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