This week, the rails got rewired. Thunes embeds stablecoins into Swift for 11,500 banks; Vietnam shortlists its first five licensed crypto exchanges to recapture $200 billion in offshore flows; and two events on the same day — HSBC’s AI job cuts and a DBS outage — capture the tension in banking’s automation transition. The architecture for the next era of payments is quietly assembling.
Authors
Emily Chen
AI Ethics Specialist & Future of Work Analyst
AI ethicist passionate about creating human-centered technology. I explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping our workplaces and societies.
Chloe Tan
Finance, Fintech & Digital Economy Strategist
Product and strategy veteran with 20 years in financial services. Covers finance, fintech, banking, and digital-economy developments across Southeast Asia, with a focus on how policy, credit, and infrastructure shape business outcomes.
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SEA Weekly: Southeast Asia's Digital Economy and Industrial Landscape
About the Series
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SEA Weekly brings you an audio version of the SEA Weekly newsletter by Chloe Tan and Miguel Santos, analyzing the major events and developments reshaping Southeast Asia’s digital economy and industrial landscape each week.
Rather than surface-level recaps, these episodes dig into the underlying patterns: the infrastructure being built beneath consumer apps, the supply chains powering regional manufacturing, the regulatory frameworks governments are writing, and the flows of capital and FDI reshaping Southeast Asia.
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