Banking Research

Dec

Thailand seizes more than US$300m in assets in scam crackdown

In the borderlands of Southeast Asia, the architecture of fraud has evolved from makeshift call centers into a burgeoning, multinational industry. For years, “scam states” have operated with relative impunity in the grey zones between Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia, staffing their compounds with a mix of willing recruits and trafficked…

Dec

Banking Research

GXS sheds 10% of staff as focus moves from ‘build’ to ‘run’

For Southeast Asia’s digital banks, the era of exuberant building is over. The era of operational discipline has begun.

Dec

Banking Research

Is AI a bubble or the foundation of a new global economy?

The global economy is currently gripped by an investment phenomenon centered on Artificial Intelligence (AI), prompting a critical and familiar question: are we witnessing a structural technological transformation or merely the latest incarnation of an asset bubble? A balanced analysis, drawing from both financial metrics and the evolution of the…

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