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Duck Creek Expands Global Platform Strategy with Multi-Country Layer Enhancements and Commitment to Support the London Market

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New platform investments help insurers scale internationally while supporting participation in the Lloyd’s specialty insurance marketplace

LONDON, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Duck Creek, the intelligent core of insurance, today announced its global expansion strategy and expanded support for insurers operating across international markets at London ENGAGE, its annual conference for insurance leaders across the UK and European markets. Building on its commitment to help carriers scale globally, Duck Creek introduced enhancements to its Multi-Country Layer architecture and announced a strategic investment to support the London Market, including plans to pursue Lloyd’s market certification.

As the world’s leading marketplace for specialty and multinational risk, the London Market depends on complex collaboration among brokers, syndicates, carriers, cover holders and partners, supported by highly specialised process flows, extensive data exchange and rigorous operational controls. Duck Creek is investing in capabilities designed to support participation in the London Market and plans to pursue Lloyd’s market certification as part of its broader strategy to serve the needs of insurers operating across this global insurance ecosystem.

Complementing these London Market capabilities is the continued expansion of Duck Creek’s Multi-Country Layer (MCL) hierarchy design, a foundational capability that enables insurers to manage global and regional operations through a unified framework. Generally available today, MCL spans Duck Creek Policy, Billing, Claims and Clarity, with expansion underway across digital solutions. Designed for multinational insurers, MCL provides a common operational framework that helps carriers enter new markets faster, reuse existing configurations, and maintain consistency across global operations while meeting local market requirements.

“Duck Creek has long been a leader in core insurance technology, helping insurers modernise policy administration, streamline operations, and adapt more quickly to changing market demands,” said Hardeep Gulati, Chief Executive Officer at Duck Creek. “Our investment in London Market capabilities extends that leadership into one of the world’s most sophisticated specialty insurance ecosystems. By expanding Duck Creek’s intelligent core systems to support London Market operations and connectivity requirements, we enable insurers to manage the full policy lifecycle more efficiently, improve operational agility, and build on the investments, partnerships, and market infrastructure they already depend upon.”

The company is focused on allowing insurers to more easily access and operate across international markets while reducing operational complexity by improving efficiency across the end-to-end insurance lifecycle. By combining cloud-native architecture, agentic intelligence and deep insurance expertise, Duck Creek helps carriers operate more efficiently across markets while remaining responsive to local requirements.

“Global growth is no longer just about entering new markets; it is about doing so with speed, consistency and control,” said Jose Lazares, Chief Product Officer at Duck Creek. “Duck Creek’s Multi-Country Layer gives insurers a reusable operating model for scaling across regions while adapting to local market requirements. Our investment in London Market capabilities strengthens that foundation, extending Duck Creek’s leadership in specialty policy underwriting into one of the world’s most complex insurance ecosystems. Together, these capabilities help carriers reduce operational complexity, strengthen underwriting discipline and pursue more profitable growth across markets.”

The MCL hierarchy provides a flexible and structured approach to managing multi-country configurations, enabling insurers to:

Reuse components across regions, avoiding duplicative set-up;Reduce implementation timelines with preconfigured, out-of-the-box structures; andAccelerate entry into new markets while maintaining governance and consistency.

Duck Creek currently supports insurers operating across major global markets, including North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, India, Australia, New Zealand and more. Continued investment will expand support across additional European and Asia-Pacific markets.

By combining a modernised configuration model, intelligent automation and expanded support for global insurance ecosystems, Duck Creek empowers carriers to:

Execute international growth strategies without duplicating effort;Adapt quickly to local regulatory requirements; andReduce operational complexity across multi-country deployments.

About Duck Creek 

Duck Creek is the intelligent core that leading insurers choose to build on. Purpose-built for property and casualty (P&C) and general insurance, Duck Creek unifies the full insurance lifecycle on a single platform with one data foundation. As an agentic platform, it connects intelligence across underwriting, policy, billing, claims, and payments of workflows where decisions are made and compliance is non-negotiable. Duck Creek enables carriers to launch products faster, adapt quickly to change, and grow with precision and confidence. Solutions are available individually or as a full suite via Duck Creek OnDemand. Visit www.duckcreek.com and follow Duck Creek on LinkedIn and X

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Marianne Dempsey / Tara Stred 
duckcreek@threeringsinc.com 

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LarrainVial and inCadense Join Forces to Advance Next-Generation Wealth Infrastructure Across Latin America

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Collaboration combines LarrainVial’s regional distribution leadership with inCadense’s international SMA, UMA and multi-currency managed accounts platform to support the transition toward fee-based wealth solutions

SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — inCadense Corp., a global managed accounts provider to the asset and wealth management industry, today announced a strategic collaboration with LarrainVial to expand access to international managed account capabilities across Latin America, local wealth markets and U.S. Offshore channels.

“Bringing LarrainVial’s market reach together with inCadense’s international managed account infrastructure gives us an opportunity to address those needs and bring new solutions to the region.” – Andres Bulnes, Partner and Global Head of Distribution at LarrainVial

The collaboration brings together LarrainVial’s deep market presence, distribution capabilities and extensive relationships across Latin American wealth and asset management with inCadense’s International Turnkey Asset Management Platform, iTAMP®, creating infrastructure to support the delivery of separately managed accounts (SMAs), unified managed accounts (UMAs), model portfolios and other fee-based investment solutions across currencies, custodians and jurisdictions.

Through iTAMP®, asset managers and wealth managers can use a common operating framework spanning portfolio construction, model and strategy delivery, account-level implementation, trading connectivity, multi-custody, multi-currency capabilities, rebalancing and reporting. The architecture is designed specifically for international wealth markets where investment products, currencies, custody arrangements and regulatory structures can vary significantly by client and jurisdiction.

The relationship is intended to help address an important infrastructure opportunity across Latin America: enabling wealth firms to move beyond predominantly transactional product distribution toward scalable, portfolio-based and fee-based advisory models while broadening access to global investment capabilities.

LarrainVial occupies a distinctive position in Latin American financial services, the firm has developed an integrated financial platform spanning third-party distribution, asset management, wealth management, brokerage and other financial services, with an extensive presence across Latin America and the U.S. Offshore market. LarrainVial has identified third-party distribution as a core strategic pillar and has continued to expand its multi-firm distribution model across the region and internationally.

“Latin America is moving toward a more global, advisory-led wealth management model, and that evolution requires infrastructure capable of supporting it,” said Andrés Bulnes, Partner and Global Head of Distribution at LarrainVial. “inCadense brings an international managed account architecture designed for the realities of these markets — multiple custodians, currencies, investment structures and jurisdictions. We see a significant opportunity to work together to bring new capabilities to our clients and partners across Latin America and the Offshore market.”

Bulnes continued, “Many of the next opportunities in Latin American wealth management are infrastructure challenges as much as they are investment-product challenges. Managers need a way to move strategies across borders. Wealth firms need scalable SMA and UMA capabilities. Advisors need greater flexibility across currencies, custodians and investment structures. Bringing LarrainVial’s market reach together with inCadense’s international managed account infrastructure gives us an opportunity to address those needs and bring new solutions to the region.”

The collaboration builds on LarrainVial’s strategy of connecting investment managers and financial intermediaries with differentiated investment solutions. Its recent expansion in U.S. Offshore has emphasized scale, dedicated distribution resources and a multi-manager approach designed to deepen client relationships and broaden the range of investment capabilities available across the region.

“LarrainVial is a market leader in Latin America and has built one of the region’s most impressive financial platforms, with capabilities spanning distribution, asset management and wealth management,” said A.J. Harper, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of inCadense. “What stands out is their deep commitment to bringing new investment solutions to market and their ability to reach clients across both local and offshore channels. We are extremely pleased to work with the LarrainVial team to expand the infrastructure supporting fee-based advice, managed accounts and global investment capabilities throughout the region.”

inCadense’s open-architecture model is designed to connect asset managers, wealth managers, custodians and execution providers within a unified managed account environment. The platform can support international securities and investment structures including UCITS, foreign ordinary shares, global fixed income, ETFs, mutual funds, separately managed accounts and, where appropriate, alternative and private-market investments.

The collaboration reflects both firms’ view that Latin American and international wealth markets will increasingly require infrastructure capable of connecting global investment capabilities with local and offshore advisory relationships in a scalable, transparent and flexible format.

About LarrainVial

Founded in Chile in 1934, LarrainVial is a leading Latin American financial services firm with capabilities spanning asset management, wealth management, capital markets, brokerage and third-party investment distribution. The firm has built an extensive regional presence and has continued to expand its distribution capabilities across Latin America, the United States and the U.S. Offshore market. Third-party distribution represents a core pillar of LarrainVial’s business and its strategy of connecting clients with differentiated global investment capabilities.

About inCadense

inCadense® provides technology and services that support asset and wealth managers in designing and delivering managed-account solutions for international investors. Its digital International Turnkey Asset Management Platform, iTAMP®, supports SMAs, UMAs and model portfolios through an integrated architecture spanning multiple custodians, currencies, asset classes and jurisdictions. Through open architecture, global custody and execution connectivity and portfolio implementation capabilities, inCadense helps financial institutions expand managed-account offerings, reduce operational complexity and deliver institutional-quality investment capabilities across international and offshore wealth markets.

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A.J. Harper, inCadense Corp., 1 6104257038, aj@incadense.com, www.incadense.com

María Jesús del Pozo, LarrainVial, 56 997057530, mdelpozo@larrainvial.com, www.larrainvial.com

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Unifor welcomes CRTC decision to move forward with Canadian content rules for streaming services

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TORONTO, Aug. 31, 2026 /CNW/ — Unifor applauds the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)’s decision to proceed with developing rules that will ensure Canadian programming is available and visible on online streaming services. At the same time, the union is also calling on the federal government to also immediately move ahead with implementing the contributions requirements for digital streamers.

The Commission’s decisive move comes after the issue played a significant role in ending trade talks with the U.S.

“Global streaming companies that profit from Canadian audiences must also contribute to the Canadian broadcasting system and help audiences find Canadian stories,” said Unifor National President Lana Payne.

The CRTC has said it will move forward with regulatory proceedings to determine how individual streaming services will be required to will be required to promote and make Canadian programming discoverable to users. The process implements the Online Streaming Act, which requires streaming services operating in Canada to support access to Canadian programming, including French-language content.

“Strong, enforceable and transparent discoverability rules are essential,” added Payne.

“Canadian content cannot be technically available but effectively buried. The rules must lead to meaningful visibility for Canadian productions and create more job opportunities for the skilled workers who make them.”

Unifor’s media sector has advocated for years for enforceable federal policies to address the crisis facing Canada’s media landscape, including the Digital Services Tax, the Online Streaming Act and the Online News Act. These measures were intended to ensure companies benefiting from access to the Canadian market contributed to the system that supports Canadian stories, journalism and media jobs.

The union continues to support the Online Streaming Act and the Online News Act.

Unifor is urging the federal government and the CRTC to move ahead without delay in implementing the contribution requirements for digital streamers as per the Online Streaming Act, ensuring the final framework includes clear obligations, measurable outcomes, and effective enforcement.

The union will continue to advocate for rules that strengthen Canadian and Indigenous production, protect Canada’s cultural sovereignty, and encourage and sustain good jobs across Canada’s media sector.

Unifor represents more than more than 9,000 media workers in Canada, who perform a diverse range of jobs, including: journalists, printers, advertising representatives, newspaper carriers, video editors, camera operators, technicians, writers, producers, editorial researchers, maintenance workers, on-air talent, stage and film crewmembers, production assistants, website developers, editors and publishers.

Unifor is Canada’s largest union in the private sector, representing 320,000 workers in every major area of the economy. The union advocates for all working people and their rights, fights for equality and social justice in Canada and abroad and strives to create progressive change for a better future.

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GCW Agency Launches SignlLabs™, A Proprietary A.I. Signaling Practice Built to Earn Brand Visibility Across Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platforms

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New practice gives clients a measurable path to being recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Perplexity, and it is built for AI, not retrofitted from SEO

NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Global Communication Works (GCW), the strategic public relations and communications agency, today announced the formation of SignlLabs™, its proprietary AI Signaling practice. SignlLabs gives GCW clients a dedicated methodology for earning visibility and recommendations across leading artificial intelligence platforms, extending the agency’s four decades of earned media expertise to how brands are discovered today.

“For nearly 40 years, GCW has built our clients’ reputations one relationship, one story, and one placement at a time. SignlLabs is the natural next chapter,” said Suzy Ginsburg, Founder and CEO of GCW. Consumers no longer stop at a search engine. They are asking AI platforms for recommendations and answers, and brands need a real strategy to show up there, not a retrofit of old SEO tactics. That is exactly what we built.”

Search engine optimization earns a ranking on a page of links. Answer engine optimization (AEO) earns the snippet an AI reads back. AI Signaling earns the recommendation itself. The gap matters because an AI does not simply answer the question it is asked. It quietly splits a single prompt into roughly five hidden research queries, then composes an answer from the sources it trusts most, which are overwhelmingly earned with third-party endorsements, not a brand’s own website.

Built from the ground up rather than adapted from existing search practices, SignlLabs pairs GCW’s earned media strategy with a dedicated AI recommendation framework, measuring performance across the five platforms most consumers now turn to for answers: ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and Perplexity AI. The practice is led by Erika Hanafin Austria, who will work alongside GCW President, Brad Ginsburg and account teams to embed AI Signaling into future client campaigns.

“SEO is about being the answer. AI Signaling is about being the recommendation,” said Erika Hanafin Austria. “When someone asks an answer engine who or what brand is best, the platform runs its own research behind the scenes and names the brands it trusts. That trust lives in earned media, not on a brands homepage. SignlLabs is built for how AI decides, not bolted onto old search tactics.”

Today GCW measures success across both traditional and AI channels, tracking impressions, reach, and engagement alongside AI recommendation lift, so clients see the full picture of how a campaign performs and reaches audiences wherever they get their news and their answers.

SignlLabs is already embedded in GCW campaigns across the agency’s women’s health, consumer health and lifestyle client roster, and the practice will be central to new business pursuits going forward.

For more information about SignlLabs and GCW, visit signllabs.ai. or GCW.AGENCY.

About Global Communication Works (GCW)

GCW is a strategic public relations agency serving clients across women and men’s health, consumer packaged goods, wellness and lifestyle, law and energy. Services span earned media, crisis and reputation management, influencer strategy, film and production, events, media training and AI Signaling. For more information, visit gcw.agency.

About SignlLabs
SignlLabs™ is GCW’s proprietary AI Signaling practice, built to help brands earn visibility and recommendations across leading AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Perplexity. The practice pairs its Signaling Maturity Score™ framework with strategic growth advisory and is available for license by public relations firms, advertising agencies and web development companies for use with their own clients. For more information, visit signllabs.ai.

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