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Outdated, unintuitive technology is a major challenge for wealth managers in Japan – Avaloq research

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Avaloq research reveals that over half of wealth management professionals in Japan and across Asia find the technology systems and applications they use outdatedIn Japan especially, wealth management professionals also believe it takes too much time to learn to use their advisory systemsEnhanced data visualization, automated regulatory checks and automated portfolio monitoring are cited as the top three functionalities that would offer major improvements for wealth management professionals in Japan

TOKYO, July 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Avaloq’s latest survey has found that over half (56%) of wealth management professionals in Asia feel that the technology systems and applications they use are outdated, compared to just 37% in Europe. 49% of respondents in Asia say it takes too much time to learn to use their advisory systems, rising to 61% in Japan. These findings point to a desire among wealth management professionals in Asia and Japan to have the latest, most intuitive technology at their disposal so they can better serve clients. 46% of Japanese respondents agree that too many systems are needed to complete a task. This comes as no surprise since 25% of wealth management professionals in Japan rely on ten or more technology systems to conduct their daily tasks, well above the global average of 17%.

Most wealth management professionals in Japan (71%) use their investment advisory tools in client meetings, above the Asian average of 64%. Of those not yet using their advisory systems in client meetings, 75% of Japanese respondents state that they would like to, indicating an opportunity to introduce systems that are up to the task. For wealth management professionals globally, the biggest barriers to using advisory tools in client meetings are user interfaces that are not optimized (69%) and technologies that are too confusing to use with clients (60%).

The survey also found strong appetite from wealth management professionals for technology that can support their daily activities. Automated regulatory checks (75%), better data visualization (71%), and automated portfolio management (71%) emerged as the top three functionalities offering a major improvement for wealth management professionals in Japan. Considering that 42% of respondents across Asia cite time as a strong or very strong barrier to offering more personalized advisory services to clients, the use of automation or AI technology to boost front-office efficiency can result in improved service for wealth management clients.

Naoyuki Honda, Sales Director and Head of Japan at Avaloq, said, “Offering highly personalized and efficient wealth management services relies on a scalable technological infrastructure. While banks and wealth managers have invested heavily in upgrading their technology in recent years, this transformation is far from complete.”

“To stay relevant and competitive in today’s rapidly evolving landscape, banks and wealth managers must focus on finding ways to create individualized experiences, including through new technology, and invest in cutting edge digital tools that empower advisers, streamline operations and support data-driven decision-making will stay ahead of the curve.”

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About the research 

This wealth industry research is based on an online survey of 200 wealth management professionals with a minimum of 5 years’ industry experience in Germany, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong SAR. The survey was conducted in February and March 2023. The report includes contributions from BlackRock, Accenture, Synpulse and Datos Insights

Read the full report on the Avaloq website, available in English and Japanese versions.   

About Avaloq
Avaloq is a premium provider of front-to-back software and services for over 160 financial institutions around the world. Our clients include private banks, wealth managers and investment managers, as well as retail banks. We develop software that can be deployed flexibly through cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) or on-premises, and we offer Banking Operations outsourcing through our business process as a service (BPaaS) model. Avaloq is a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, a global leader in the integration of IT and network technologies. www.avaloq.com

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Caliber Public Safety Partners with Abel Police to Reduce Officer Report Writing Time with New BodyCam Narrative Feature

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New AI integration targets the number one administrative burden for patrol officers and delivers CJIS-compliant field tools while maintaining strict accountability through a human-in-the-loop model.

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Caliber Public Safety, a provider of integrated public safety technology to more than 700 law enforcement, fire/EMS, and corrections agencies nationwide, announced new BodyCam Narrative capabilities and a comprehensive suite of in-field AI tools within their Online RMS.

Caliber’s goal is to help agencies leverage AI responsibly to increase efficiency while maintaining transparency, accountability, and public trust. Designed to directly reduce the hours patrol officers spend on paperwork, this new feature delivers measurable business outcomes by targeting the most time-consuming part of the workday. By accelerating the reporting process, agencies can keep their personnel in the field and highly visible in the communities they serve.

The Problem BodyCam Narrative Solves
Report writing is consistently cited as the top administrative burden among law enforcement professionals. After a complex incident, officers often face “blank screen syndrome,” struggling to recall exact timelines and details after a long shift.

To solve this, Caliber Public Safety has integrated the specialized AI report-writing solution from Abel Police directly into the Caliber Online RMS. The BodyCam Narrative feature allows officers to access their body camera videos within the RMS narrative tools. The Abel Police technology then generates a preliminary draft based on the video and audio content, complete with embedded time-link references to specific video segments. Rather than starting from scratch, officers receive a working framework that they can easily verify against the footage.

Daniel Francis, Abel CEO, added: “We built our AI report-writing solution to help officers focus on policing rather than paperwork. Integrating our technology directly into the Caliber Online RMS puts this time-saving tool exactly where officers need it. We are proud to partner with Caliber to bring this capability to more agencies and help get officers back on patrol faster.”

Expanding the In-Field Toolkit
Beyond narrative generation, this partnership deploys the full Abel Police application to support officers during active calls. This comprehensive deployment includes three critical tools designed for the realities of patrol:

Abel Chat: Officers often need immediate clarification on state law, case law, or agency policy manuals while on a scene. Abel Chat provides a CJIS-compliant AI interface that delivers real answers with source citations. It is built to safely handle Criminal Justice Information (CJI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) directly on an officer’s computer or mobile phone.Abel Translate: Language barriers can delay investigations and complicate community interactions. Abel Translate offers CJIS-compliant voice translations across 80 languages. Crucially, it includes a built-in consent requirement that asks the subject for permission to use automated translation in their own language, protecting civil rights and agency liability.Abel Map: To improve situational awareness and officer safety, Abel Map provides a live-location interface that allows for easy location sharing agency-wide or within specific teams.

Configurable Workflows and Consistent Reporting
The system is highly adaptable to meet specific agency needs. It can process all types of video evidence, from street footage to formal interviews, and administrators can configure the system to restrict processing to specific video types if desired. Once a narrative is saved, the associated videos do not immediately disappear. They remain accessible within the system for a configured period, defaulting to 10 days, allowing officers to return and review footage if further supplements are needed.

Additionally, the BodyCam Narrative feature can be combined with charge-specific templates for recurring incident types, such as driving under the influence or domestic violence. This combination creates a highly consistent report structure across the entire agency. This similarity in reporting makes it significantly easier for supervisors to review submissions and for district and prosecuting attorneys to process cases efficiently.

The Human-in-the-Loop Differentiator
Caliber differentiates its approach to artificial intelligence through a strict human-in-the-loop model. The technology is designed to assist the officer, not replace officer judgment. Final accountability always remains with the authoring officer.

Josh Bryant, Director, Project Management with Caliber Public Safety, explained the operational impact: “Our focus is always on the practitioner. By partnering with Abel Police, we are giving officers a tool that significantly cuts down the time it takes to write a compliant, accurate report. Just as importantly, our strict human-in-the-loop validation ensures that the officer’s judgment remains the final authority on every single narrative.”

To guarantee this accountability, the Abel Police integration includes a unique validation step that sets it apart from other solutions. The system intentionally inserts obvious fictional statements, known internally as “Easter eggs,” into the initial AI-generated draft. This requires the officer to actively read, review, and edit the content before the system allows them to save the final report. Furthermore, the system tracks which users have acknowledged the AI-generated content, providing a clear audit trail for agency leadership and prosecuting attorneys.

Availability
The Abel Police suite, including BodyCam Narrative, Chat, Translate, and Map, is available as an agency-level activation, allowing administrators to assign access only to specific user roles. For agencies new to this technology, Abel Police offers structured pilot programs for five to six users. This allows departments to test the workflow and measure time savings before full deployment. Active pilots are currently underway in select agencies across the country, with users already experiencing the benefits of the integrated workflow.

Agencies interested in learning more about the BodyCam Narrative feature or the full Caliber Online RMS platform are encouraged to contact the Caliber Public Safety sales team via phone, email, or by visiting our website: (336) 397-5300 / info@caliberpublicsafety.com / www.caliberpublicsafety.com.

About Abel Police

Abel Police is a San Francisco company that builds the complete AI toolkit for police agencies, including Writer for report writing, Chat for CJIS-compliant and policy-aware AI chat, Translate for live in-field translations, and Citizen for online reporting for residents. Dedicated to the brave men and women of law enforcement, Abel provides the tools to help these professionals focus on protecting the communities they serve. https://abelpolice.com/ 

About Caliber Public Safety

Caliber Public Safety provides integrated technology solutions for law enforcement, fire/EMS, corrections, and 911 communications agencies. The Caliber platform includes CAD, Mobile, Online RMS, and JailTracker, all built by and for public safety professionals. With a focus on reliability, interoperability, and ease of use, Caliber serves hundreds of agencies across the country, helping first responders spend less time on technology and more time serving their communities. www.caliberpublicsafety.com 

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enCore Energy Corp. Featured in “The Nuclear Option” Documentary Series

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DALLAS, Sept. 3, 2026 /CNW/ — enCore Energy Corp. (NASDAQ: EU) (TSXV: EU) (the “Company” or “enCore”), America’s Clean Energy Company™, announced today the Company was featured in an episode of the CNA (Channel NewsAsia) investigative documentary series “The Nuclear Option – Episode 3: Racing for Resources” exploring nuclear energy. The episode is now available to watch online.

The series explores the evolution of nuclear energy, safety strategies, and the global race to secure nuclear fuel and resources. The episode highlights enCore’s Alta Mesa In-Situ Recovery (“ISR”) Uranium Central Processing Plant in South Texas and includes interviews with enCore team members:

Dain McCoig, Chief Operating OfficerDr. Dennis Stover, ISR Pioneer and Chair of the Company’s Technical Advisory CommitteeJesus (Jesse) R. Garza Jr., Plant Technician Level 3Mary Lou Rodriquez, Local Resident and Retired ISR Uranium Central Processing Plant Employee

“We are honored to be featured by CNA to be featured in an international documentary exploring nuclear energy. With the growing demand for domestically produced uranium, education on the current operations and safety advancements in the industry is crucial and we are proud to showcase our skilled team and operations.” said William M. Sheriff, Executive Chair.

The full episode is available to watch at: channelnewsasia.com/watch/nuclear-option/episode-3-racing-resources-6264326. enCore is featured between 24:31 and 34:48.

About enCore Energy Corp.

enCore Energy Corp., America’s Clean Energy Company™, is committed to providing clean, reliable, and affordable uranium to fuel the rapidly expanding U.S. nuclear energy needs. enCore’s team is led by industry experts with extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of uranium ISR operations and the nuclear fuel cycle. enCore exclusively uses ISR for uranium extraction, a minimally invasive, eco-friendly, and economically competitive mineral extraction technology co-developed by enCore’s leadership.

Building on enCore’s demonstrated and continuing success in South Texas, future projects in enCore’s planned project pipeline include the expansion of Alta Mesa to include the Alta Mesa East property, the Dewey Burdock project in South Dakota, and the Gas Hills project in Wyoming. The Company holds other assets, including non-core assets and proprietary databases. enCore is committed to working with local communities and indigenous governments to create positive impacts from corporate projects.

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LiveU Joins IBC Accelerator’s Smart Stories Consortium to Define an Open Standard for Story Context Interoperability

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LiveU connects live field acquisition to the Story Object Model, the open standard newsrooms are building so AI-enabled production tools work from one shared understanding of a story

HACKENSACK, N.J. , Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LiveU is participating in the IBC Accelerator Incubator 2026: Smart Stories – The New Knowledge Architecture for Content Production, an industry-wide initiative developing the Story Object Model (SOM), an open standard for structuring and sharing editorial story context across newsroom production systems. SOM creates one story that every tool works from – cutting time to air, giving every team a single view, and preventing errors caused by rewriting metadata between vendors.

This new consortium spans more than a dozen broadcasters, news organizations, standards bodies, and technology vendors, covering the full content chain from news gathering through to distribution. Champions include ITN, BBC, AP (Associated Press), Al Jazeera, Channel 4, Washington Post, BBC, ITV, Sky, EBU, NBCUniversal, Reuters, Scripps, and SMPTE. LiveU joins the project alongside technology participants including Google Cloud, Shure, Trint, Cognizant, EVS, CUEZ, Trint, AWS, Nuvelics, Electric Sheep, the Weather Company, Moments Lab, HyperContent AI, Octopus, Fonn Group and Vizrt.

A gap AI can’t close on its own

As content volume grows exponentially, broadcasters need better ways to discover and distribute it, and the ability to build one story into versions that span broadcast, social, and streaming. Today, producers hold that structure themselves, manually re-entering and aligning details. That slows production and raises the risk of error as stories advance toward air.

Smart Stories closes that gap with a new knowledge architecture for content production. MOS (Media Object Server), the broadcast industry’s long-standing operational standard, connects systems by moving data between them but is editorially blind. In contrast, SOM is designed to connect them editorially: it gives every tool in the chain a shared, structured description of what a story is, what has changed, and what matters. AI agents and production tools can act on that understanding without a producer relaying it by hand.

The Accelerator project also defines Skills, so editorial standards, compliance thresholds and house style stay encoded and owned by the newsroom.

LiveU’s role: a story-centric ingest workflow built around SOM

SOM extends LiveU’s story-centric automated ingest and acquisition workflow by adding another layer of interoperability to LiveU’s open EcoSystem. SOM enables editorial teams to share context in real time between vendors, leading to context-aware agentic workflows. LiveU Ingest today already shares live feeds and metadata with newsroom, editing, and distribution platforms outside LiveU.

“Live production has always depended on context traveling from the field into the newsroom and across every tool that touches a story,” said Roy Hasson, VP Product Marketing and SaaS Sales, LiveU. “For years, producers held that context in their heads, as AI agents take on more of the production workflow, they need that same context to work from. Smart Stories is the industry building the standard that makes story-centric workflows possible, so systems understand each other and agentic AI can support the editorial process. Our field-to-cloud technology powers that work today.”

One use case focuses on connecting acquisition units directly to the story. When a story breaks, LiveU suggests which unit to dispatch. That unit’s feed carries the story’s context into the cloud. Transcription and clip generation build on that context automatically. One person then confirms the story in a shared console.

Hasson continued, “We are committed to open industry standards, because they increase collaboration and interoperability between vendors across the production chain. That commitment shows up in LiveU’s active participation in initiatives like SOM, MXL, and TAMS – open projects that keep our IP-video EcoSystem connected to outside tools and platforms.”

Deliverables and live demo at IBC2026

The consortium will deliver three outputs before IBC2026 in Amsterdam, the Story Object Model specification, a Skills reference architecture and a live multi-vendor demonstration. The demonstration takes two forms: a filmed, end-to-end breaking-news pipeline, and a live event where a story changes mid-production, and every connected system responds in real time, with a human editor giving final sign-off. The consortium will also publish a three-tier integration guide, giving vendors a defined path to adopt SOM.

LiveU will join the consortium’s live showcase on Saturday, September 12th:

Smart Stories Incubator showcase: 4:00–5:00pm, Future Tech Stage, Hall 14Accelerator networking reception: 5:00–6:00pm, immediately following the showcase

Network Control: Your Connection, Your Choice

LiveU is also participating in this second IBC2026 Accelerator Project, using open 5G network APIs to turn 5G from best-effort connectivity into a programmable, predictable and reliable production resource.

Network Control: Your Connection, Your Choice unites the BBC, EBU, DAZN, France Télévisions, GSMA, RAI Italy, RTL Germany, TV2 Denmark, Vodafone and Telefónica as Champions, alongside LiveU, Neutral Wireless, Haivision, SliceFinity and Vonage as Participants, with the University of Strathclyde serving as Academic Partner. Together, the group explores how open network APIs can help applications with specialized requirements interact with standardized network capabilities designed to meet defined quality requirements, supporting reliable and business-critical media production workflows over 5G.

LiveU’s full IP-video EcoSystem will be on display at Stand 7.C24. To arrange a meeting or demonstration, visit https://get.liveu.tv/ibc-2026/

The IBC Accelerator Zone is located in Hall 14, D.25. The Accelerator PoC Showcases for the above projects will be on Saturday September 12th 16-17.00hrs (Smart Stories) and Sunday September 13th 11.30am-12.30pm (Network Control) on the Future Tech Stage, also in Hall 14.

About LiveU 

LiveU is the global leader in live IP-video solutions, transforming live video into real value. From breaking news and major sports events to enterprise communications and public safety, LiveU enables reliable and efficient live production and visual intelligence at scale. LiveU offers a comprehensive, modular IP-video EcoSystem spanning the entire live production workflow. Our solutions are powered by the resilient, low-latency LRT™ (LiveU Reliable Transport) protocol and further strengthened by LiveU IQ (LIQ™), which leverages AI–driven connectivity for optimal performance. With a strong focus on automation, LiveU reduces manual processes to help organizations deliver innovative, story-centric live productions – streamlining scheduling, content creation, ingest and orchestration. Supporting digital–first, hybrid and cloud–based workflows, LiveU provides flexible, scalable and future-proof solutions that support remote productions, on-premises/cloud integration, and multi-platform distribution. Actus Digital, a LiveU company, and the value leader in its space, combines quality assurance monitoring and compliance logging in a unified, affordable Actus X platform. Trusted by over 5,000 customers in more than 150 countries, LiveU is an American company, headquartered in Hackensack, New Jersey, and a multi-award winner. For more information, visit www.liveu.tv, or follow us on X, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn or Instagram.

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+44-7740 948065
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201-906-9367
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