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Southeast Asia

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Wednesday — May 20, 2026

OpenAI's Singapore Lab Anchors Southeast Asia as AI Infrastructure Hub

OpenAI's first overseas lab lands in the middle of Southeast Asia's financial plumbing, and the implications for tokenization and institutional AI run deeper than the headline.

Sunday — May 10, 2026

Tokenization

Binance Becomes De Facto Central Bank for Emerging Market Populations

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When 77% of your users treat your exchange as their primary bank, you are no longer a trading venue. You are financial infrastructure.