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Malaysia’s AI and data-center investment story is running into a hard constraint: electricity supply. According to a BIMB Securities research note covered by TechNode Global on September 4, 2026, land is no longer the limiting factor for the country’s data-center buildout — power, water, and fiber c

Japan’s math certification body SUKEN has been issuing exam results digitally since June 2025 through the Turing Certs platform, with authenticity verified on the IOTA blockchain. For the three exam sittings between September and late October 2026 alone, SUKEN expects 45,700 registrations — and up t

Headline stat everyone quotes: stablecoins move up to $35 trillion a year on-chain. Headline stat nobody quotes: real, end-user stablecoin payments — actual money moving for actual reasons — are closer to $390 billion. That’s roughly 0.02% of global payments volume. That gap is the real story, accor

Singapore is stepping up its efforts to strengthen its position as a global financial technology hub, with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) committing S$220 million (US$173 million) over the next three years to accelerate innovation across the financial sector . The funding will be provided

Broadridge Financial Solutions, the New York-listed fintech giant that quietly became the biggest name in institutional asset tokenization, has taken its most significant step yet toward a borderless, on-chain repo market: its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform now supports G7 government securit

Russia is taking another major step toward state-controlled digital money. On September 1, 2026, major telecommunications companies, online marketplaces and systemically important banks are beginning to accept the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital ruble. At the same time, M

AI agents didn’t wait for permission. Over the twelve months to April 2026, autonomous software executed roughly 176 million payments worth more than $70 million, according to a widely cited report from trading firm Keyrock — average ticket size, about 31 cents. More than 104,000 agents are now regi

Alpaca, the API-first brokerage platform used by hundreds of fintechs and trading platforms worldwide, has struck a partnership with Kalshi, the world’s largest prediction market exchange, to add CFTC-regulated event contracts to its infrastructure. The move lets Alpaca’s partners and builders offer

Platforms like Tiger Brokers, Moomoo and Longbridge are rolling out AI copilots that digest earnings, flag risk and — in Longbridge’s case — draft trade plans on their own, as usage among Singapore investors climbs sharply. Singapore’s retail trading scene is going through a quiet AI upgrade. Accord

Family offices have spent the past few years moving from the sidelines of the digital asset conversation to the table itself. Where crypto exposure was once quietly delegated to a junior analyst or ring-fenced as a curiosity allocation, more single and multi-family offices across Asia are now asking

Vietnam’s export engine is running hotter than almost anyone expected heading into the second half of 2026, and the latest call from Singapore’s DBS Bank suggests the momentum has further to run. In a note published August 28, DBS Group Research economists Taimur Baig and Nathan Chow forecast that V

Indonesia will host 24 economies, 500+ international delegates and the region’s first dedicated AI Summit this October — and it’s a story crypto and AI-adjacent audiences should be watching. Jakarta is set to become the meeting point for Asia-Oceania’s digital economy leaders when the ASOCIO Digital