🇰🇷 Bloomberg: South Korea’s KOSPI 12-month forward P/E falls to 4.2x. Among the 18 stock markets valued above $1 trillion at the start of 2026, South Korea is the first to trade below 5x forward earnings in Bloomberg data going back to 2006.

🇲🇾 LATEST: Malaysia’s and Thailand’s central banks join Singapore’s BLOOM cross-border payments initiative. As policymaker members, they will work with industry to advance cross-border settlement and interoperability using regulated stablecoins and tokenized deposits.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong treasury chief Christopher Hui says tokenization is moving from experimentation to implementation. HKEX aims to pilot tokenized warehouse-receipt financing with designated banks in 2027 and test a blockchain-based multi-asset tokenization platform covering commodity receipts from London Metal Exchange-approved warehouses.

🇰🇷 Bank of Korea to require monthly holdings reports for cross-border crypto users from Dec. 2. Providers must report month-end balances for users with cross-border transfers since July 19, 2024—even in months without such transfers, Digital Asset reports. Reports cover token balances, KRW valuations and cross-border flows, including dormant accounts, delisted tokens and staked assets. Submissions are due by 5:30 p.m. KST on the 10th of the following month.

🇰🇷 LATEST: SK hynix’s Solidigm halts its review of pre-IPO fundraising and IPO plans. The company cited capital market conditions and share price trends. It will continue evaluating alternative financing options to support Solidigm’s capacity expansion. The U.S. NAND flash subsidiary had reportedly considered a KRW 5 trillion pre-IPO funding round.

LATEST: Generative AI reaches 243 million users in Southeast Asia, scaling four times faster than mobile internet. A Google, Temasek and Bain report says six Southeast Asian markets reached that scale in under three years, equivalent to 58% of their working population. Only 1%–2% of the population pays for personal AI subscriptions. For businesses, Shopee now handles about 80% of customer inquiries with AI, cutting its cost per contact by 30% year over year.

🇰🇷 South Korea’s Financial Services Commission will consider allowing crypto exchanges into the tokenized securities market. Chairman Lee Eog-weon supported using exchanges’ existing technology and trading infrastructure. The review will cover market conditions, investor protection, consolidating licensing categories and allowing exchanges to operate both businesses.

🇰🇷 South Korea seeks to regulate stablecoins as payment instruments. The government and Bank of Korea are pushing to amend the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act, Digital Asset reports. South Korea is also drafting a Digital Asset Basic Act to establish exchange licensing and stablecoin issuance rules.

🇰🇷 SK Hyper is in funding talks for data centers, with its first 5 GW phase expected to cost $350 billion. The SK Group unit is approaching major tech companies and financial investors, Jin10 reports. The estimate includes equipment costs. It aims to close its first funding round in late 2026 or early 2027, targeting 15 GW of total data center capacity in South Korea by 2035.

DeepSeek has reportedly raised 15 billion dollars to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. Tencent and CATL are among the biggest investors. Tencent is the tech giant behind WeChat, an app used for messaging, payments and everyday services. CATL is the world’s largest battery maker, helping power the global electric vehicle industry. DeepSeek’s fundraising target reportedly doubled during negotiations, from 50 billion to 100 billion yuan. That could give the company more resources for computing power, research and expansion. With DeepSeek also working to make AI cheaper to run, its rivals could face more pressure to explain why customers should pay more ？

🇰🇭 Cambodian court freezes nearly $1 billion in assets linked to the Prince Group case. The assets include buildings, casinos and thousands of properties, Cambodia China Times reports. Investigators identified 198 affiliated companies: 98 in Cambodia and 100 overseas. Key Prince Group member Ing Dara and two other suspects have also been arrested.

🇨🇳 Shanghai’s financial regulator calls for blockchain use to expand supply-chain finance. New measures promote big data and blockchain adoption, alongside the orderly development of receivables financing, supply-chain bill financing, warehouse receipt lending and order financing.

🇨🇳 LATEST: Huawei secures a seven-year offshore yuan loan worth RMB15 billion ($2.25 billion). Six Chinese lenders, including Bank of China, China Construction Bank and ICBC, provided the financing for general corporate purposes, Bloomberg reports, citing a source. It is Huawei’s first offshore syndicated loan since 2020, coming amid rising spending on AI-related chips.

🇨🇳 DeepSeek raises RMB 100B (~$15B) in one of China’s largest funding rounds. CATL and Tencent are among the largest investors. The funds will help DeepSeek compete globally with OpenAI and Anthropic.

🇰🇷LATEST: Shinhan Card partners with SBI firms to explore cross-border yen stablecoin payments. Shinhan Card, SBI VC Trade and SBI XDC Network APAC will study card-linked merchant payments, wallet transfers and cross-border trade settlement. The project remains at an early stage, with no stablecoin selected publicly or timeline set for testing or commercial launch.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong retiree in her 60s loses over HK$4.5 million to a fake tenant’s crypto scam. Police said she met the supposed tenant, who claimed to be an investment expert, on a property platform. She made 20 visits to physical exchanges to buy USDT, then transferred it to a designated wallet, purportedly to invest in ETH. After initially withdrawing funds successfully, she invested more. She discovered the scam when asked for HK$7 million worth of USDT in “taxes” to withdraw again.

🇰🇷 SK Hynix completes KRW 40 trillion share buyback and cancellation South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix has completed a buyback of 24.07 million shares, representing approximately 3.3% of its issued shares, Yonhap reported. All repurchased shares will be canceled. The program wrapped up on October 21, nearly a month ahead of its original November 19 deadline.

🇲🇾 LATEST: Malaysia’s central bank launches tokenized bond platform SSDS+. Built on distributed ledger technology, it supports the issuance and custody of tokenized bonds and sukuk. Integration with RENTAS+ enables 24/7 settlement in central bank money.

🇯🇵 Former BOJ executive expects another rate hike in December. Eiji Maeda expects a further hike in March or April 2027. He said the pace has accelerated to roughly one increase every three months, which he considers appropriate.

🇰🇷The KOSPI index in South Korea rose 4% during the day, currently reported at 5775.10 points According to market data, the South Korean KOSPI index surged 4.00% during the day, currently reported at 5775.10 points. Samsung Electronics rose by 6.8%, and SK Hynix increased by over 7%.