SEA Weekly - Episode 9: Infrastructure Was 'Done'. The BIS Sent a Memo.
Bangkok declared the infrastructure era over at Money20/20 Asia. The BIS published a stablecoin warning the day before the conference opened, questioning whether the dollar-denominated rails beneath that infrastructure carry ETF-like run risk. OCBC answered both arguments in the same week: launching Southeast Asia's first on-chain tokenised gold fund on Ethereum and Solana, and emerging as preferred bidder for HSBC's Indonesian retail banking assets at S$444 million. Vietnam and South Korea launched cross-border QR connectivity on bilateral sovereign infrastructure that runs no stablecoin…
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