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Minor Hotels Accelerates Global Digital Transformation with Oracle Cloud

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August 4, 2026

Oracle OPERA Cloud enables Bangkok-based chain to centralize operations, speed up hotel openings, and deliver more connected guest experiences across its portfolio

AUSTIN, Texas and BANGKOK, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Minor Hotels has successfully rolled out Oracle OPERA Cloud across 106 of its hotels, resorts, and branded residences in 59 countries. This milestone marks a significant step in Minor’s digital transformation strategy and commitment to elevating guest and associate experiences across its portfolio. The hotel chain also added Oracle OPERA Cloud Central, further strengthening its central reservation and distribution capabilities.

“At Minor Hotels, digital transformation is about far more than modernizing systems. It is about building a connected commercial ecosystem that unifies our brands, our data and every guest interaction across the journey,” said Ian Di Tullio, chief commercial officer, Minor Hotels. “Oracle OPERA Cloud provides an important foundation for that vision, enabling us to accelerate innovation, strengthen personalization, and create more seamless experiences for both our guests and our teams.”

Laying the foundation for faster, more agile operations

Faced with rapid expansion across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, and Australasia, Minor Hotels recognized the need to move beyond legacy on-premises systems that limited agility and scalability. The transition to a cloud-native platform established a centralized and flexible cloud technology foundation with security capabilities designed to support long-term growth. This includes eliminating the cost and complexity of managing property-level servers, which can delay deployment timelines and benefit from automated updates that reduce downtime and enhance business continuity. In addition, Minor Hotels is creating a consistent operational data foundation that supports a more unified view of their guests across their portfolio, enabling a consistent experience across brands including Anantara, Avani, NH Collection, NH Hotels, Tivoli and Oaks.

This shift positions IT as a proactive enabler of business performance and innovation rather than a reactive support function. For example, leveraging Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform (OHIP), which supports seamless connectivity across a broad ecosystem of partners and proprietary products, Minor Hotels can continually add new capabilities to meet the needs of its guests and business.

“In today’s hospitality landscape, integration is critical,” said Thiru Tholtan, vice president – solutions, Hotel Technology, Minor Hotels. “OHIP gives us the flexibility to innovate quickly, from developing our own paperless check-in solutions to integrating best-in-class third-party services. It creates a truly connected platform that evolves with our needs. Oracle has demonstrated a clear commitment to supporting global hospitality operators. Their delivery against the product roadmap, particularly in mobile-first capabilities, continues to add value to our operations.”

The modular, open architecture enables Minor Hotels to scale innovation across markets while maintaining a consistent core technology framework. Minor Hotels’ collaboration with Oracle has evolved into a strategic partnership, with a shared focus on innovation and continuous improvement. Oracle’s global footprint supports Minor Hotels’ international operations, helping ensure compliance, security, and localized support across all regions.

“Digital is the backbone of modern hospitality,” said Laura Calin, senior vice president, Oracle Consumer Industries. “With OPERA Cloud, Minor Hotels can move beyond fragmented systems to unify data and workflows, personalize guest experiences, and adapt as expectations evolve, helping to reduce friction so its teams can focus on the human connections that define great hospitality.”

Minor Hotels views its transition to OPERA Cloud as a foundational step in its broader digital transformation, providing the cloud-native platform required to scale AI-driven personalization, connected commerce, and real-time guest intelligence across the enterprise. The company continues to invest in its OPERA Cloud transformation journey, with the next phase of deployments extending to hotels across Australia and New Zealand. This ongoing rollout reinforces the company’s commitment to modernizing hotel operations through a cloud-first platform while creating a consistent technology foundation across regions.

To learn more visit www.oracle.com/Hospitality.

About Minor Hotels
Minor Hotels is a global leader in the hospitality industry with over 640* hotels, resorts and branded residences across 59 countries. The group crafts innovative and insightful experiences through its hotel brands including Anantara, Elewana Collection, The Wolseley Hotels, Tivoli, Minor Reserve Collection, NH Collection, nhow, Avani, Colbert Collection, NH, Oaks, and iStay, as well as a diverse portfolio of restaurants and bars, travel experiences, and spa and wellness brands. With over four decades of expertise, Minor Hotels builds stronger brands, fosters lasting partnerships, and drives business success by always focusing on what matters most to our guests, team members and partners.

Minor Hotels is a proud member of the Global Hotel Alliance (GHA) and recognises its guests through one unified loyalty programme, Minor DISCOVERY, part of GHA DISCOVERY.

Discover our world at minorhotels.com and connect with Minor Hotels on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube.

*Property count includes operating properties as well as committed developments through ownership, joint ventures, signed leases and management agreements.

Oracle Hospitality
Oracle Hospitality brings more than 45 years of experience in providing technology solutions to independent hoteliers, global and regional chains, gaming, and cruise lines. Our hardware, software, and services enable customers to act on rich data insights that deliver personalized guest experiences, maximize profitability, and encourage loyalty. Cloud-based, mobile-enabled, with open APIs, Oracle’s OPERA Cloud property management and distribution, Simphony point-of-sale, reporting and analytics, and Nor1 upsell solutions accelerate innovation, increase revenue, lower IT cost, and maximize operating efficiency. To learn more, please visit www.oracle.com/Hospitality.

About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at oracle.com.

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Forrester Honors Recipients Of Its 2026 Technology Awards For Asia Pacific

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August 4, 2026

Singtel, CLP Power, Nan Shan Life Insurance, DBS Bank, and Grab recognized for leveraging technology to successfully drive business impact

SINGAPORE, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Forrester (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced that Singtel is the winner of its 2026 Technology Strategy Impact Award for Asia Pacific; CLP Power and Nan Shan Life Insurance Co., Ltd. are the recipients of its Enterprise Architecture Award; and DBS Bank and Grab are the inaugural APAC winners of its Data & AI Impact Award. These awards recognize organizations that align technology with the dynamic needs of their business; embrace enterprise architecture practices that contribute to the high performance of their business; and use data and AI effectively to drive innovation and create lasting value for their customers.

“This year’s Technology Awards winners demonstrate that technology, enterprise architecture, data, and AI create the greatest impact when they are tightly aligned to business strategy,” said Frederic Giron, VP and senior research director at Forrester. “What sets these organizations apart is their ability to move beyond experimentation and deliver measurable outcomes at scale: accelerating growth, improving resilience, empowering employees, and creating better customer experiences. Their achievements offer a powerful example of the role technology can play to accelerate business results.”

Information about Forrester’s 2026 Technology Strategy Impact Award winner:

Singtel Singapore, which is part of Singtel Group, a leading Asian-based connectivity, digital infrastructure, and services organization, transformed IT into an AI-native, business-driving capability through its multiyear Xcelerate program. Singtel Singapore improved operational resilience, reduced technology costs and obsolescence, and accelerated innovation across the business by modernizing applications, infrastructure, data, and AI platforms, all while upskilling its workforce.

Information about Forrester’s 2026 Enterprise Architecture Award winners, presented in partnership with The Open Group:

CLP Power, Hong Kong’s largest power company, adopted an enterprise architecture-led approach that connects strategy, technology, and delivery across the organization. Its portfolio-driven approach accelerated transformation, improved customer and operational outcomes, and delivered significant cost savings while creating a more streamlined and future-ready digital technology landscape.Nan Shan Life Insurance Co., Ltd., one of Taiwan’s largest life insurers, transformed enterprise architecture into a scalable digital innovation capability. Through reusable architecture components, outcome-driven governance, and AI-enabled development, the company accelerated innovation, reduced misinvestment risk, and improved business and customer outcomes.

Information about Forrester’s 2026 Data & AI Impact Award winners:

DBS Bank, the largest bank in Southeast Asia, embedded AI across the enterprise through a scalable operating model that combines reusable platforms, responsible AI governance, and workforce enablement. Its approach has driven widespread adoption of AI, accelerated innovation, and generated significant business value at scale.Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading superapp, has built an internal-facing self-service platform for employees in its business and corporate functions to build and run their own AI-driven automations. This agentic AI platform, combined with ongoing workforce training initiatives and a strong governance framework, has empowered Grab’s nontechnical teams to automate processes and scale AI adoption.

Together, these organizations exemplify how leading enterprises are using technology, enterprise architecture, data, and AI to deliver measurable business outcomes and drive long-term growth.

Resources:

Read more about the winners of Forrester’s Technology Strategy Impact Award, Enterprise Architecture Award, and Data & AI Impact Award.Register to attend Forrester’s AI Forum Singapore on August 20, 2026 and AI Forum Sydney on August 25, 2026.For members of the press interested in attending, please contact press@forrester.com.

About Forrester
Forrester (Nasdaq: FORR) is one of the most influential research and advisory firms in the world. We empower leaders in technology, customer experience, digital, marketing, revenue, and product functions to make confident decisions in an AI-driven world and accelerate growth through customer obsession. Our unique research and continuous guidance model helps executives and their teams achieve their initiatives and outcomes faster and with confidence. To learn more, visit Forrester.com.

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FOMO Pay Expands Institutional Blockchain Infrastructure with Canton Network Validator Approval

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August 4, 2026

FOMO Pay has received validator approval on Canton, and this will help expand its payment infrastructure with an institutional-grade blockchain network purpose-built for regulated financial markets.The approval positions FOMO Pay to leverage Canton for B2B payments and settlements, adding to FOMO Pay’s existing multi-chain, multi-rail, and multi-currency payments network.

SINGAPORE, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — FOMO Pay, a leading Major Payment Institution and Singapore’s first Digital Payment Token licensee, today announced that it has received validator approval on Canton, the privacy-enabled blockchain network built for regulated financial markets. FOMO Pay joins the network alongside a growing ecosystem of global financial institutions.

Canton allows participants to securely transact and share information with authorised counterparties while maintaining confidentiality. The network processes more than 600,000 transactions per day, reflecting growing institutional adoption across payments, settlement, and tokenised asset workflows.

Validator approval on Canton reflects the trust and credibility FOMO Pay has established as a regulated payment institution in Asia. Through its validator role, FOMO Pay will operate a dedicated node on Canton, gaining a private, institutional-grade gateway to transact with authorised counterparties. The company intends to leverage Canton for institutional B2B payment and settlement use cases, expanding its multi-chain payment network. Validator approval also marks an expansion of FOMO Pay’s institutional payment infrastructure, which currently supports enterprise payment flows across traditional banking rails and major blockchain networks and serves clients across Southeast Asia, the Greater Bay Area, and the Middle East and North Africa.

“Receiving validator approval reflects how we think about building payment infrastructure, not around a single blockchain or a single payment rail, but across a growing range of networks that institutional finance will increasingly rely on,” said Louis Liu, Founder and CEO of FOMO Pay. “As the leading payment orchestration network in Asia, licensed across multiple markets, FOMO Pay is building regulated payment infrastructure that connects traditional financial systems with institutional-grade blockchain networks designed for compliant financial use cases. Canton represents the next step in that strategy.”

This milestone further reinforces FOMO Pay’s focus on building a compliant multi-chain, multi-rail, and multi-currency payment infrastructure, and as institutional adoption of blockchain-based financial infrastructure accelerates, FOMO Pay will continue to expand the rails, chains, and corridors through which it moves money and value. This will enable FOMO Pay to connect its multi-rail payment infrastructure with institutional digital asset and settlement infrastructure, helping to build a network capable of serving the full spectrum of payment and settlement needs.

About FOMO Pay

Founded in 2015, FOMO Pay is a payment institution licensed in Singapore, Hong Kong and the Middle East. The firm has become a leading one-stop digital payment, digital banking, and digital asset solution provider. It is currently building Asia’s fully licensed financial platform, helping institutions and businesses connect between traditional and next-generation financial services. The firm offers its three flagship products:

FOMO Payment – One-stop digital payment solution for merchants, corporates and financial institutionsFOMO iBiz – Facilitate businesses’ everyday requirements for transactional banking needsFOMO Treasury – Corporate cash management and investment solutions for liquidity optimization and earning yield

Visit www.fomopay.com for more information. For media inquiries, contact marketing@fomopay.com.

About Canton

Canton is the only public, permissionless blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance–uniquely combining privacy, compliance, and scalability. With participation from leading global financial institutions and network governance independently facilitated by the Canton Foundation, Canton enables real-time, secure synchronization and settlement across multiple asset classes on a shared, interoperable infrastructure. The open-sourced network is powered by its native token, Canton Coin, and supports decentralized governance and collaborative application development. It’s the proven link between the promise of blockchain and the power of global finance, making finance flow the way it should. Learn more at: canton.network.

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TripGain Launches Agentic AI Infrastructure for Enterprise Travel & Expense, Combining MCP with its API Gateway to Unlock Connected Travel Ecosystems

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August 4, 2026

New capability enables enterprises to build AI-powered travel and expense experiences that can book travel, file expenses, manage vendor spend, and approve requests through natural conversation — while securely accessing a marketplace-driven travel ecosystem through a single connection.

BENGALURU, India and CHICAGO, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TripGain, the AI-powered enterprise Travel & Expense (T&E) management platform, announces the launch of the TripGain MCP Server, a new capability that combines the open Model Context Protocol (MCP) with TripGain’s API Gateway to bring agentic AI to enterprise travel and expense management.

Unveiled at the GBTA Convention 2026, the new capability enables organizations to connect AI assistants directly to TripGain’s Travel & Expense platform, allowing employees to book business travel, file employee expenses, manage vendor expenses, and approve requests through natural conversation. Instead of navigating multiple applications, supplier portals, approval queues, and expense systems, users simply interact with their AI assistant while TripGain securely executes the underlying business workflows.

Enterprise AI is rapidly evolving from helping employees find information to completing real business tasks. The TripGain MCP Server extends this shift to corporate travel and expense by allowing AI assistants to execute enterprise workflows while continuing to leverage TripGain’s policy engine, approval workflows, supplier connectivity, and financial controls.

Built on the open Model Context Protocol introduced by Anthropic in 2024, the TripGain MCP Server acts as the conversational interface between AI assistants and the TripGain platform. What makes the solution unique is its combination with TripGain’s API Gateway. Together, they create a unified execution layer that enables AI assistants to securely access a marketplace-driven travel ecosystem through a single connection. Enterprises can connect to any travel supplier, aggregator, or inventory source supported through TripGain’s API Gateway without building or maintaining individual integrations, custom APIs, approval workflows, or compliance logic.

Rather than acting as just another AI connector, the TripGain MCP Server functions as an intelligent orchestration layer. MCP provides the standardized interface for AI assistants, while TripGain’s API Gateway handles the complexity of supplier connectivity, inventory aggregation, booking workflows, policy enforcement, approvals, and expense processing. This allows organizations to unlock maximum travel inventory and enterprise functionality through a single conversational interface instead of managing dozens of disconnected integrations.

Unlike AI integrations that primarily retrieve information, the TripGain MCP Server is designed to execute enterprise workflows. Employees can simply ask an AI assistant to search and book policy-compliant business travel, submit employee expenses, reconcile vendor expenses, or approve pending requests, while TripGain performs the actions securely in the background according to enterprise policies and workflows.

“Enterprise AI is moving beyond answering questions to completing real business work,” said Sudheer Reddy, Founder and CEO of TripGain. “With the TripGain MCP Server, organizations can extend their AI strategy into enterprise travel and expenses without rebuilding existing systems. Employees simply ask, AI takes action, and TripGain executes securely in the background.”

“The real innovation comes from combining MCP with our API Gateway,” Sudheer added. “MCP gives AI assistants a standard way to communicate with enterprise systems, while our API Gateway gives them access to a connected travel ecosystem through a single interface. Customers don’t need to integrate individual suppliers, maintain APIs, recreate approval processes, or manage complex compliance workflows. They connect once, and TripGain orchestrates the entire experience behind the scenes.”

TripGain MCP Server supports key enterprise workflows including:

Policy-compliant business travel search and bookingEmployee expense capture and submissionVendor expense managementTravel and expense approvals

Beyond end-user experiences, the TripGain MCP Server also enables enterprise development teams to build their own AI-powered travel and expense agents. Developers can leverage TripGain as the execution layer while focusing on creating AI experiences tailored to their business, eliminating the need to build supplier integrations, global inventory connections, approval engines, policy enforcement, or compliance workflows from scratch. Whether an organization connects to a handful of suppliers or an extensive global travel ecosystem, TripGain abstracts the underlying complexity through its API Gateway.

Designed around the open MCP standard, the TripGain MCP Server is AI assistant agnostic, enabling organizations to integrate with MCP-compatible AI assistants of their choice instead of being locked into a single AI ecosystem. The solution is remotely hosted by TripGain and can be enabled through secure endpoint configuration and OAuth authentication, allowing enterprises to get started without deploying additional infrastructure.

“The future of enterprise software isn’t another interface — it’s intelligent systems that work on behalf of employees,” added Sudheer. “We’re not simply exposing travel and expense data to AI. We’re enabling AI agents to execute enterprise operations while TripGain manages the complexity of supplier connectivity, business rules, approvals, and governance behind every transaction.”

By combining the open Model Context Protocol with its marketplace-driven API Gateway, TripGain creates a single intelligent pipe between enterprise AI and the global travel ecosystem. Organizations gain broad access to suppliers and global inventory without the ongoing burden of customizing integrations, configuring booking flows, maintaining API connectors, or continuously updating approval and compliance processes.

About TripGain

TripGain is an AI-powered enterprise Travel & Expense (T&E) management platform that helps organizations simplify business travel, automate expense management, and gain real-time visibility into travel spend. Built on a marketplace-driven, inventory-agnostic architecture, TripGain combines intelligent workflow automation with an extensive API Gateway that connects enterprises to a broad ecosystem of travel suppliers and aggregators. The platform enables organizations to manage travel booking, employee and vendor expenses, approvals, compliance, and financial workflows through a single intelligent platform. Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, TripGain serves more than 400 organizations and processes over US$1 billion in annual travel and expense transactions.

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