Tech news snapshot, October 2022: Vanuatu’s moves towards a less cash-based economy, Binance’s partnership growth with Kazakhstan, the question of ASEAN’s relevance in the region, and more.
Framing A Transatlantic Technology Strategy / CNAS
- Binance crypto exchange gains license to act as digital asset and custody services provider in Kazakhstan, with plans to aid the country in developing digital asset regulation
- “…the 55-year-old Association of Southeast Asian Nations is facing an existential crisis, owing to severe internal splits over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Myanmar’s military coup and other issues.”
- Startup Bangladesh VC firm partners Eastern Bank and Visa to launched special startup-focused loan product, Startup Explorer
- Myanmar Digital Coup Quarterly, produced by Myanmar Internet Project, provides a summary of digital oppression issues faced by the country’s citizens in May, June and July of 2022
- ICYMI: Financial Action Task Force, money laundering and terror finance watchdog, blacklists Myanmar, instructs members to raise due diligence on business relations and transactions in the country
- New Zealand: eVouch social media marketing startup banks NZ$500K pre-seed funding, building on word-of-mouth marketing provided by customer social media posts
- Vanuatu takes key step towards more cashless activity with reforms under IFC Pacific Payments Project enabling debit card and EFTPOS machines to be interoperable
- “If Australia hopes to be a trusted member of its regional community it must make long-term investments in teaching and learning Asian languages…”
Asia Pacific Digital Transformation Report 2022 / UN ESCAP
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