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BOARD UPDATES: CUBE bolsters board with experienced appointments

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Seasoned global business executive, Chris Jurasek, joins CUBE as Non-Exec Chair, reflecting CUBE’s transformational growth trajectoryExperienced tech finance professional and diversity champion, Emma Brown, will join CUBE as Chief Financial OfficerStéphane Besson continues as Non-Exec Director having played a pivotal role in supporting CUBE’s acquisitions to date in 2024

LONDON, July 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — CUBE, a global leader in Automated Regulatory Intelligence (ARI) and Regulatory Change Management (RCM), has today announced a series of experienced additions to its board as it continues to extend its leading position and continue its transformational growth.

Chris Jurasek has joined CUBE’s board as Non-Exec Chair. Chris is an investor and business executive bringing over 25 years of experience in building global tech and data companies and their leadership teams. Chris has worked with companies across software, technology and professional services. He is also the current CEO of Chelsea F.C., the English Premier League football club.

Emma Brown will be joining CUBE’s board as Chief Financial Officer. She is an accomplished finance professional and brings over 15 years of experience in scaling high growth global businesses across the tech and services sectors, both in the UK and Australia. Emma was awarded an MBA scholarship by the United Nations Women’s Committee, recognising her dedication to creating career opportunities for women and the promotion of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Stéphane Besson joined CUBE’s board earlier this year and will be continuing as Non-Exec Director. He played a key role in supporting CUBE’s recent acquisitions and brings extensive experience in driving growth and building teams across the financial services and tech industries; particularly in London, New York and Paris. Stéphane worked at McKinsey and BNP Paribas, as well as a leading financial services tech and data company where he was CEO.

The additions will form CUBE’s board alongside its Founder and CEO, Ben Richmond, as well as Christopher Fielding and Thomas Martin, both representing CUBE’s strategic investment partner, Hg.

CUBE’s Non-Exec Chair, Chris Jurasek, said: “There are many reasons why the opportunity to be part of CUBE appealed to me. Not least because this pioneering business has already demonstrated impressive innovation to become an industry leader building a best-in-class regulatory data and AI solution for its customers. I’m excited to be part of this journey with CUBE as it continues to deliver the global regulatory agenda for the financial services sector and I’m looking forward to supporting the leadership team to drive sustainable, long-term growth.”

On her upcoming role at CUBE, Emma Brown said: “CUBE’s trajectory to date has been incredibly impressive and it is amazing what the team have already achieved. The business has so much opportunity in front of it and is a true champion in its sector. I feel privileged to have the opportunity to be part of CUBE and look forward to using my experience in scaling global tech businesses to help CUBE further cement its leading position and serve its global customer base.”

Stéphane Besson, Non-Executive Director at CUBE, said: “There is a big challenge for financial services firms meeting their regulatory requirements and it’s been getting bigger over the last fifteen years. CUBE provides the best solution to this challenge and I look forward to continuing my support of the incredibly strong team at CUBE as we execute on our global growth strategy and support  our customers in global financial services with their ever-changing regulatory requirements.”

Discussing the board updates, CUBE’s Founder and CEO, Ben Richmond, said: “The appointments of Chris, Emma and Stéphane further develops CUBE’s highly skilled senior leadership team and board. They will provide experienced leadership to support the long-term ambition and strategy of the business, and I look forward to working alongside them in the years ahead. With our continued growth and recent transformative acquisitions, 2024 is sure to be another hugely exciting year for all at CUBE.

“I would also like to thank our outgoing board advisors for all their support to date and with this transition, we recognise the key role they have played over the years at CUBE and wish them all the very best.”

About CUBE
CUBE provides a highly comprehensive and robust source of classified, and meaningful AI-driven regulatory data to power its Automated Regulatory Intelligence (ARI) and Regulatory Change Management (RCM) solutions. CUBE’s purpose-built regulatory technology including its AI engine (RegBrain) and software platform (RegPlatform) tracks, analyses, and monitors laws, rules, and regulations in every country and in every published language to create an always up-to-date regulatory footprint that transforms visibility and compliance capability for customers across the globe.

With operations across Europe, North America, Canada, Asia, and Australia, CUBE serves a diverse and global base of customers and partners including the largest financial institutions in the world who leverage CUBE’s platform to streamline their complex regulatory intelligence and change management processes. Following the strategic partnership with Hg in March 2024, CUBE announced the two acquisitions of US-based Reg-Room and the Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence and Oden products and businesses in May 2024. cube.global

About Hg
Hg supports the building of sector-leading enterprises that supply businesses with critical software applications or workflow services, delivering a more automated workplace for their customers.

This industry is characterised by digitisation trends that are in early stages of adoption and are set to transform the workplace for professionals over decades to come. Hg’s support combines deep end-market knowledge with world class operational resources, together providing compelling support to entrepreneurial leaders looking to scale their business – businesses that are well invested, enduring and serve their customers well.

With a vast European network and strong presence across North America, Hg’s 400 employees and around $70 billion in funds under management support a portfolio of around 50 businesses, worth over $140 billion aggregate enterprise value, with over 110,000 employees, consistently growing revenues at more than 20%.

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Trip.com Group Sincerely Accepts Administrative Penalty Decision Issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation of the People’s Republic of China

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SINGAPORE, July 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Trip.com Group Limited (Nasdaq: TCOM; HKEX: 9961) today announced that it has received the administrative penalty decision issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation of the People’s Republic of China.

Trip.com Group sincerely accepts the decision and will adopt rectification measures in accordance with applicable laws and regulations to implement the decision’s requirements. The Company will strengthen its long-term governance mechanisms and strive to contribute to the sustainable development of the travel industry.

Trip.com Group’s management team will host a conference call at 8:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time on July 27, 2026 (or 8:00 PM Hong Kong Time on July 27, 2026).

The conference call will be available on Webcast live at: http://investors.trip.com.

All participants must pre-register to join this conference call using the participant registration link below:
https://register-conf.media-server.com/register/BIb78e08d8f18340c4882a7e4ab961906b.

Upon registration, each participant will receive details for this conference call, including dial-in numbers and a unique access PIN. To join the conference, please dial the number provided, enter your PIN, and you will join the conference instantly.

For further information, please contact:
Investor Relations
Trip.com Group Limited
Email: iremail@trip.com

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NAVER Partners with Brookfield and NVIDIA to Expand Korea’s National AI Factory Infrastructure Buildout

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — NAVER, Brookfield and NVIDIA announced an expansion of Korea’s sovereign AI factory infrastructure. New investments will increase the initial NVIDIA DSX™ AI factory deployment from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts.

Announced during Korea President Jae Myung Lee’s AI Summit visit to San Francisco, the planned 200-megawatt expansion will be built with the NVIDIA DSX platform at NAVER’s GAK Sejong hyperscale data center in Sejong, South Korea. The expanded infrastructure will provide Korea- and U.S.- based AI innovators with access to production-scale AI compute for building next-generation models, agents and AI-powered services.

Under the terms of the agreements, Brookfield will fund up to $9 billion as the exclusive capital partner, NVIDIA will invest $1 billion and NAVER will fund the remaining amount to finance the $10 billion project.

This builds on NAVER’s June announcement to extend its GAK Sejong data center with NVIDIA DSX, with a long-term path to gigawatt-scale sovereign AI infrastructure serving Korea’s enterprises, industries, government organizations and global AI cloud customers. Combining Brookfield’s capital with NVIDIA’s computing platform, the investment supports NAVER’s AI factory deployment.

“NVIDIA’s strategic investment and our infrastructure supply agreement with Brookfield have propelled NAVER’s vision for the AI Factory business into a robust execution phase,” said Haejin Lee, Founder and Chairman of NAVER. “Leveraging the solid partnerships with our global partners, we will drive technological innovation, foster a sovereign AI ecosystem, and spearhead efforts to strengthen South Korea’s AI competitiveness.” 

AI Factory Expansion and Open Model Collaboration to Fuel AI Innovators

NAVER, as an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, provides deep expertise in operating hyperscale infrastructure powered by the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform. The 200-megawatt AI factory, featuring NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Blackwell platforms, will establish a dedicated resource pool for emerging AI companies, providing the compute, software and support needed to develop and deploy competitive AI models and applications at scale.

This expanded infrastructure also builds on NAVER and NVIDIA’s collaboration on open model development for agentic and physical AI. NAVER is advancing its HyperCLOVA X models to be based on NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Ultra open models with its proprietary data and training expertise. NAVER is also the first Korean company to join the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, contributing to open model development across pretraining, post-training and reinforcement learning.

NAVER plans to launch an AI agent platform in Korea in the second half of the year, powered by NVIDIA Agent Toolkit software including NVIDIA NemoClaw™ blueprints. NAVER is also developing a Seoul World Model using proprietary urban street-view and spatial modeling data, built on NVIDIA Cosmos™ world foundation models.

About NAVER

Founded in 1999, NAVER is Korea’s largest Internet company and one of the world’s top tech companies. Leading cutting-edge technologies, NAVER operates the No.1 search engine in Korea and holds various business portfolios encompassing commerce, fintech, cloud, AI and robotics.

NAVER recorded sales of KRW 12.04 trillion (USD 8.18 billion) in 2025. TEAM NAVER continues to enhance its business portfolio and expand its global presence across Japan, North America, and Europe, while pursuing innovation through continuous research and development in future technologies.

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Beijing Review: Walking Through Time: China and U.S. Youths Explore Dali’s Past and Future

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BEIJING, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On July 17, a China-U.S. youth delegation came to Dali of Yunnan Province. By examining how Dali’s rich history intersects with modern development, the delegates explored new pathways for rural development.

They visited Dali Old Town, tried their hand at making the Bai people’s Three-Course Tea and also explored the ancient town of Xizhou, where they learned how modern tourism and indigenous life coexist.

In Yunnanyi Village, they explored its history as a stop along the Tea Horse Road and learned about the role it played during the Second World War (WWII).

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“I think it’s a very underappreciated part of World War II history. Hearing these stories of different countries working together despite cultural differences is incredibly inspiring.

I also think there are many stories like these that haven’t been widely told, simply because World War II is such a complex period in history. That’s why I think it’s so meaningful to visit museums like this and experience these stories firsthand.”

At Xiangyun Economic and Technological Development Zone, they visited a local new energy company to see how green, low-carbon development is driving regional growth.

Valerie Marie

“I recently started studying energy transitions. I know China has been really big in the renewable energy sector. So actually getting to hear more about [China’s] 2060 [pledge], learning more about carbon neutrality [goals], as well as other zero-carbon goals, was cool.”

During their stay in Dali, they also strolled along the Erhai Lake Ecological Corridor.

Bai Yiwen

“I’d describe this journey as “to be continued,” because my own connection with Yunnan is far from over. For the U.S. delegates, this was only their first visit, so they’ve only had a glimpse of what Yunnan has to offer. I hope they will have more opportunities to come back to China, explore other cities in Yunnan, and discover even more of its people, culture and traditions.”

After Dali, the delegates will visit Beijing for more tours and exchanges. The event was co-hosted by China International Communications Group (CICG) Center for the Americas and the U.S.-based International Student Conferences.

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