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6 CÈ pieces since 25 June 2026: 3 deals, 1 intel item, 2 essays. Newest first. All companies →

  1. Deal

    Who settles it when the buyer is an AI agent? DBS wires Stripe into its Asian rails

    Stripe gains access to DBS money-movement and cash-management infrastructure; DBS takes Stripe's embedded-finance reach. Asia's outbound cross-border flows ran $13.5 trillion in 2025 and are projected at $24 trillion by 2033.

  2. Essay

    Washington can cut Chinese banks off dollar clearing. Iran won’t be the reason.

    Bessent promised the greatest coordinated economic isolation in history. The one measure that reaches Iran’s last buyer is the one that spends the rail everything else runs on.

  3. Intel

    Grid capacity is rationed, so DayOne will make its own: $415M green loan, 20MW, hydrogen fuel cells

    DBS, OCBC and UOB arranged a S$530 million four-year green loan for DayOne's 20MW facility in western Singapore, which pairs on-site solid oxide fuel cells with vertical solar and hybrid cooling. It opens in Q1 2027.

  4. Deal

    Malaysia's data-centre boom needed lenders, not landlords: AirTrunk raises $2.33B for 420MW in Johor

    IFC and DBS anchor $2.325 billion of green project financing for the JHB2 campus, AirTrunk's largest single-asset raise and the biggest for one Malaysian data centre. Design power usage effectiveness is 1.37.

  5. Essay

    A profitable coworking operator, marked down almost 18 percent on its SGX debut

    JustCo runs 54 flexible-workspace centres across 12 cities and made under US$3 million last year; the Singapore Exchange marked it down almost 18 percent on debut, and it was not the only scale-first listing the market repriced this summer.

  6. Deal

    Singapore's DBS extends $210M facility to Asia's energy-transition vehicle ETAFCo

    DBS becomes the first commercial bank to fund ETAF — a blended-finance partnership under MAS's FAST-P initiative, managed by Clifford Capital — bankrolling coal phase-outs, renewables, grids and storage across Asia.