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SEA Signal — week of Aug 27

🇹🇭 Thailand's SEC opens consultation on spot Bitcoin & Ether ETFs on the SET
🇸🇬 Visa joins MAS's BLOOM to pilot 7-day stablecoin settlement
🇻🇳 Vietnam folds crypto services into its anti-money-laundering law

https://t.co/X2relHPvj6

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SEA Daily Brief — Aug 29

🇸🇬🇲🇾 Fitch: Singapore's data-centre capacity crunch is spilling into Johor
🇸🇬 Singapore fintech funding hits its weakest half in a decade
🇲🇾 OSK Ventures and Affin Hwang launch a venture debt fund

https://t.co/UjnCmwcEQR

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A tokenisation pilot, a bank-fintech AI partnership, and a regional AI conference — three different registers of the same shift toward AI-native finance. Worth tracking which one ships a real product first.

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SEA Daily Brief — Aug 27

🇲🇾 CIMB settles RM1.38B in tokenised sukuk under BNM's Digital Asset Hub
🇸🇬 DBS and Stripe team up on agentic commerce across Asia
🇹🇭 Techsauce opens in Bangkok with AI as the headline act

https://t.co/lYHVomEM3y

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🇹🇭 Techsauce Global Summit 2026 opened in Bangkok — 350+ speakers, 10 stages, 350+ exhibitors, agentic AI as the dominant theme. Kai-Fu Lee gave a virtual keynote on redesigning organisations around AI. Runs through Aug 28.

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The AI money and the AI infrastructure are increasingly sitting in different countries. Worth tracking which gap closes first.

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SEA Daily Brief — Aug 21

🇻🇳 Vietnam lands a $508M data centre from a Singapore consortium
🇸🇬 Singapore AI startups raised $9.3B this year, the rest of SEA <$40M combined
🇸🇬 Deepgram picks Singapore for its APAC HQ

https://t.co/zm9k8Np3Cu

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🇸🇬 Voice-AI infra firm Deepgram just picked Singapore for its APAC headquarters and named a new regional GM, backed by state investor EDBI — even though Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam are among its fastest-growing markets. Same clustering pattern, different company.

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An embedded credit product, a core-banking rebuild, and a payments-infrastructure expansion — three layers of the same regional buildout, each solving a different bottleneck. Worth tracking which one changes user behaviour first.

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SEA Daily Brief — Aug 26

🇲🇾 GXBank and Touch 'n Go embed a RM150K credit line inside Malaysia's biggest eWallet
🇻🇳 Vietnam's Sacombank rebuilds its core banking on Temenos and IBM
🇸🇬 Stripe marks 10 years in Singapore with a six-wallet checkout expansion

https://t.co/hj08MWvZ6r

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🇸🇬 Stripe marks 10 years in Singapore (80K+ merchants, 60%+ selling internationally) by adding GCash, Touch 'n Go, PromptPay, Samsung Pay, MoMo and TrueMoney to checkout, plus an Adaptive Pricing tool it says lifts cross-border revenue 17.8% on average.

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A market-structure overhaul, a regulatory divergence, and an infrastructure forecast — three different time horizons on the same regional story. The KLCI change is the only one with a hard deadline.

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SEA Daily Brief — Aug 25

🇲🇾 Bursa Malaysia expands the FBM KLCI from 30 to 50 stocks, its biggest overhaul since 2009
🇸🇬🇭🇰🇯🇵 Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan split on dollar-stablecoin strategy
🌏 Malaysia leads a forecast $35B SEA data-centre buildout

https://t.co/DwBvMP5hty

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🌏 Arizton forecasts Southeast Asia data-centre investment more than doubling from $15.72B (2025) to $35.08B by 2031. Malaysia leads the pipeline with 6+ GW of planned capacity, Thailand follows at roughly 3.5 GW — 173 facilities in development against 306 already operating.