July 19, 2023

Ai-Media Introduces LEXI Viewer: Revolutionizing Live Events with Cutting-Edge Captioning Solution

LEXI Viewer

Ai-Media Introduces LEXI Viewer: Revolutionizing Live Events with Cutting-Edge Captioning Solution

BROOKLYN, N.Y., July 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ai-Media, the industry leader in technology-driven live captioning, transcription, and translation solutions, is delighted to unveil the ground-breaking LEXI Viewer. This innovative solution revolutionizes how event organizers captivate audiences. Say farewell to the constraints of traditional approaches and prepare to embrace a new era of unrivalled event engagement.

In today’s dynamic event landscape, creating an exceptional experience for all attendees is paramount. LEXI Viewer offers a user-friendly and cost-effective solution to enhance inclusivity, catering to diverse audience types. By seamlessly integrating with our flagship LEXI automatic captioning solution, we can deliver unparalleled captioning quality. Users can effortlessly click their way to captioning, taking full control of LEXI through the front panel LCD screen or a wireless remote. This ingenious functionality ensures a captivating and dynamic experience for both event organizers and attendees alike.

LEXI Viewer Display Modes

LEXI Viewer boasts an array of display modes designed to cater to diverse presentation styles and brand requirements, ensuring optimal visibility of presentation content while delivering crystal-clear captions.

“Enhancing the live event experience for all individuals is our unwavering commitment, and as pioneers in the industry, we proudly present LEXI Viewer as a groundbreaking solution,” says James Ward, Chief Sales Officer of Ai-Media. “With the exciting addition of click-to-caption functionality, coupled with cutting-edge technology and our powerful AI-driven captioning solution, we are revolutionizing inclusivity and uplifting the engagement of diverse audiences.”

Full Screen Mode: Captions are displayed on the entire screen, offering maximum accessibility to a large audience. Various line spacing and text size options are available, accommodating individual preferences.
Background Image Mode: Users can overlay four rows of captions on a custom background image, providing complete configurability of caption appearance, including font, text size, positioning, and color. This allows event organizers to maintain their branding while prioritizing inclusivity.
Caption Decoder Mode: Captions can be displayed over the input video to mimic the behaviour of a consumer caption decoder while offering customization options for font and text color.
Scaler Mode: Users can maintain full visibility of presentation content by scaling down the input video by 20% and displaying two rows of captions above or below the video.

Furthermore, event organizers can enhance captioning security and retain greater control of their data by pairing LEXI Viewer with LEXI Local. This powerful solution provides LEXI automatic captions on-premises, eliminating cloud-related concerns and ensuring complete data privacy.

“We understand the importance of data security and privacy, and our LEXI Local solution addresses these concerns, providing event organizers with enhanced control over their valuable data,” adds James Ward. “With LEXI Viewer and LEXI Local, we are offering a comprehensive accessibility solution that goes beyond expectations.”

To explore the future of live events, contact sales@ai-media.tv for inquiries or to request a personalized demonstration.

About Ai-Media

Founded in Australia in 2003, technology company Ai-Media is a global leader in live and recorded captioning, transcription and translation solutions. The company helps the world’s leading broadcasters, enterprises and government agencies ensure high accuracy, secure and cost-effective captioning via its AI-powered LEXI automatic captioning solution. LEXI captions are delivered to millions of screens worldwide via Ai-Media’s range of captioning encoders and its iCap Cloud Network – the world’s largest, most secure caption delivery network. Globally, Ai-Media delivers over 8 million minutes of live and recorded media monthly. Ai-Media trades on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:AIM). For more information, please visit Ai-Media.tv.

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July 19, 2023

Employers Turn to Business School Grads for Skills of Today and Tomorrow

GMAC survey identifies in-demand talents and hiring projections from corporate recruiters

RESTON, Va., July 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Despite unfavorable macroeconomic conditions and looming uncertainties, employers remain confident in hiring graduates from business schools, according to a survey of corporate recruiters released today by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). GMAC, a global association representing leading business schools, published findings from the 2023 survey that explores which skills employers think will characterize the future workplace – and how prepared they view candidates of MBA and business master’s degrees to be.

Employers say communication, data analysis, and strategy are currently among the most important skills for business school graduates – and most say their importance will continue to grow. Notably, U.S. employers interested in tech skills highly value their future importance but think business school graduates could be better prepared on specific technological capabilities. U.S. recruiters – along with their colleagues in the finance and accounting sectors – are also more critical of candidates’ preparedness to leverage some important communication skills compared to other regions and think business schools could better build their graduates’ intercultural skills.

“The outlook among most employers indicates that business schools are on the right track preparing their graduates with the skills of current and growing importance to successfully navigate an information loaded and AI-affected world,” said Joy Jones, CEO of GMAC. “It is our belief that business schools and their graduates will rise to the challenge in upgrading the critical skills of the future – be it cross-cultural competence, Web3 and Blockchain, or digital communication – to allow them to thrive in global, hybrid organizations and make meaningful impact in an ever-changing environment.”

Other Key Findings:

Overall, employers tend to believe business school can offer an advantage over talent without a graduate management education. Employers from Asia and Fortune 500 companies have a more optimistic view of the abilities and advancement potential of business school graduates, but also are more likely to recruit more heavily from “leading” business schools. And as in previous years, employers continue to value talent from in-person programs over those with online degrees or micro-credentials only.

“Graduates of online business degrees should talk about their credentials differently depending on the employer—employers in Asia are more likely to value the degree itself, while U.S. and consulting employers would rather hear about specific skills candidates attained,” suggested Andrew Walker, director of research analysis and communications at GMAC and the author of the report. “Micro-credentials in and of themselves are less likely to impress employers compared to graduate business degrees though the skills they bring are appreciated by some employers.”

The survey also examines how macroeconomic conditions are influencing hiring and salary decisions across industries and around the globe. Encouragingly, even after accounting for inflation, MBA salaries in 2023 in the United States are expected to be higher than 2022 projections, while industry and business master’s salaries may drop. Despite reported recession concerns, 2023 hiring plans remain optimistic, with some anticipated growth in hiring among business master’s compared to actual 2022 results.

About the Survey

For more than two decades, the Corporate Recruiters Survey from GMAC has provided the world’s graduate business schools and employers with data and insights to understand current trends in hiring, compensation, skill demand, and perceptions of MBA and business master’s graduates. GMAC, together with survey partners European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and the MBA Career Services and Employer Alliance (MBA CSEA), collected input from 1,028 respondents in 34 countries and representing 55% of Global Fortune 500 companies from January to March of 2023, in association with the career services offices at participating graduate business schools worldwide. GMAC Research also worked with a market research firm to recruit additional participants to make the overall sample more globally representative.

About GMAC

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is a mission-driven association of leading graduate business schools worldwide. GMAC provides world-class research, industry conferences, recruiting tools, and assessments for the graduate management education industry as well as resources, events, and services that help guide candidates through their higher education journey. Owned and administered by GMAC, the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) exam is the most widely used graduate business school assessment.

More than 12 million prospective students a year trust GMAC’s websites, including mba.com, to learn about MBA and business master’s programs, connect with schools around the world, prepare and register for exams and get advice on successfully applying to MBA and business master’s programs. BusinessBecause and GMAC Tours are subsidiaries of GMAC, a global organization with offices in China, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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July 19, 2023

Quantexa Recognized as a Technology Standout in Celent’s 2023 xCelent AML Transaction Monitoring Report

Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence Platform and Financial Crime solutions credited for driving efficiencies through automation and enriching graph analytics and network analysis

LONDON and NEW YORK, July 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today Quantexa, a global leader in Decision Intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors, announced that it has been recognized by Celent, a global research and advisory firm providing technology expertise to key decision makers at financial institutions, for its standout technology in the 2023 xCelent Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Transaction Monitoring (TM) Report, an independent resource helping financial institutions select an AML vendor best suited to meet their needs. Celent’s report profiled 17 AML TM systems available globally, including an overview of their functionality, customer base, technology, implementation, pricing, and support, to help key financial institutions navigate the market.

Celent credited Quantexa for “pioneering the use of entity resolution […] to power granular, deep network analysis to support the forensic investigation of financial crimes.” Key benefits highlighted include the platform’s ability to “resolve internal transaction and customer data as well as external data […] pertaining to entities, transactions and other activities, and counterparties to generate highly enriched network analyses of associated accounts that can surface risk insights,” and “to automate much of the investigative process, thereby increasing analyst efficiency.”

Customers rated Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence Platform and AML solutions strongly overall, with the speed of implementation and the flexibility of the data model receiving the highest scores for implementation experience and technology respectively. They also appreciated the platform’s graph analytics and network/link analysis capabilities. Respondents noted the Quantexa team’s knowledge of their solution and relevant technology. One client cited “a strong level of service and responsiveness compared to other vendor experiences.”

Quantexa’s Chief Product Officer, Dan Higgins, said: “Being recognized as a best-in-class provider for AML solutions by Celent is a true testament to the innovation and value we deliver to our clients. We continually strive to bring best-in-class solutions to our clients, helping them turn information into insight and insight into the ability to protect, optimize, and grow their organizations. Having Celent recognize our solution for the depth of impact it delivers, as well as our teams’ breadth of knowledge, which is helping to aid in the forensic investigations of financial crime, is inspiring and rewarding.”

Quantexa’s platform gives leading banks, fintechs and regulators the ability to understand their data by connecting siloed systems to protect, optimize and grow. By protecting and fighting against financial crime, Quantexa clients can become more resilient, visualize hidden risks at speed, and make more informed and trusted decisions about AML risk.

To download the Celent report which profiles Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence solution for AML Transaction Monitoring, visit Quantexa’s website here.

About Quantexa
Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Decision Intelligence that empowers organizations to make trusted operational decisions by making data meaningful. Using the latest advancements in big data and AI, Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence platform uncovers hidden risk and new opportunities by providing a contextual, connected view of internal and external data in a single place. It solves major challenges across data management, KYC, customer intelligence, financial crime, risk, fraud, and security, throughout the customer lifecycle.

The Quantexa Decision Intelligence Platform enhances operational performance with over 90% more accuracy and 60 times faster analytical model resolution than traditional approaches. Founded in 2016, Quantexa now has more than 650 employees and thousands of users working with billions of transactions and data points across the world. The company has offices in London, Dublin, New York, Boston, Washington DC, Toronto, UAE, Malaga, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Brussels, Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.quantexa.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

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July 19, 2023

St Kitts and Nevis introduces mandatory interviews to confirm its status as the best regulated Citizenship by Investment Programme in the Caribbean

Basseterre, July 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — St Kitts and Nevis has yet again strengthened the administration of its Citizenship by Investment (CBI) Programme, announcing that all main applicants are to partake in a mandatory interview as part of the application process to its investment migration programme.

The twin-island Federation becomes one of the first Caribbean nations to introduce the soon-to-be industry standard. Instituted by regulations published on July 19, 2023, the new policy applies to all applications, including those already received but not yet approved by the Citizenship by Investment Unit (CIU). The new regulations also provide that dependants may be asked to be interviewed.

This new step in St Kitts and Nevis’ CBI application process confirms that St Kitts and Nevis has now fully implemented the six principles agreed between the United States of America and governments of the five Caribbean nations with Citizenship by Investment Programmes in a roundtable meeting held on February 25, 2023. That meeting was convened to discuss and agree on common ways to deal with threats to international communities in the investment migration ecosystem.

The five Caribbean participating governments are Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis and Saint Lucia. Their Prime Ministers and other senior state officials met with a USA delegation led by Anna Morris, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the USA Department of Treasury.

The group collectively committed to six CBI principles proposed by the USA, several of which were already adopted by the five Caribbean participating governments of their own volition as part of their risk management framework to strengthen and safeguard the integrity of their CBI programmes.

The six principles agreed were:

Treatment of denials: Not to process applications from persons whose applications have been denied in another CBI jurisdiction, by proactively sharing information on denials.
Interviews: Conduct interviews with applicants, whether virtual or in-person.
Additional checks: Each jurisdiction will run checks on each application with the Financial Intelligence Unit of its respective country.
Audits: Audit the Programme annually or every two years in accordance with internationally accepted standards.
Retrieval of passports: Request law enforcement assistance to retrieve revoked/recalled passports.
Treatment of Russians and Belarusians: Suspend processing applications from Russians and Belarusians.

A delegation from St Kitts and Nevis, headed by the country’s Prime Minister, Terrance Drew, also attended this year’s annual European Union-Community of Latin American and Caribbean States Summit (EU-CELAC) Summit in Brussels.

During the Summit, St Kitts and Nevis, along with the other Caribbean CBI islands, met with the European Commission and agreed to establish a joint task group to engage the stakeholders and keep both regions abreast of ongoing developments and find a common ground to work from.

“We are very happy about how the meeting went in Brussels. There is definitely a spirit of cooperation between ourselves and the European Commission, and we will continue to make our efforts in mitigating international security risk very clear so all our international partners are confident of the integrity of our programme,” noted Prime Minister Drew.

The third edition of EU-CELAC was held from July 17 to July 18, 2023, and aims to discuss key matters of interest that impact the Caribbean and the European Union and effective resolutions.

From July 19, 2023, main applicants, 16 years and older, for St Kitts and Nevis’ CBI programme will be required to be interviewed – virtually or in person – as part of the application process.

Head of St Kitts and Nevis’ Citizenship by Investment Unit, Michael Martin, commented that “St Kitts and Nevis remains committed to cooperating with our international stakeholders and takes the safety and integrity of our Citizenship by Investment Programme extremely seriously.”

Due diligence and risk mitigation remain a very important aspect of how St Kitts and Nevis approaches its CBI programme.

The country has one of the best regulated programmes in the world. St Kitts and Nevis is the only country with a CBI Board of Governors responsible for providing general oversight of the operations their CBI Unit; developing and implementing policies and procedures; ensuring that application processing is completed within the timeframes advertised without compromising the integrity of the programme; and constantly monitoring the global investor immigration industry to ensure that the country’s CBI Regulations align with international market forces.

The country is the also the only one with a CBI Technical Committee charged with ensuring all due diligence background checks are comprehensive in keeping with the country’s multi-sectoral good governance transformation into a sustainable island-state.

Caribbean CBI nations remain at the pinnacle of due diligence excellence and St Kitts and Nevis continues as a trailblazer for many CBI nations across the world.

The due diligence for the St Kitts and Nevis CBI Programme is conducted by highly respected international due diligence agencies from the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom, and vetted by the CBI Unit, Financial Intelligence Unit and international policing authorities. These agencies work together to facilitate a multi-layer due diligence investigation online and on-the-ground.

St Kitts and Nevis boasts the oldest CBI programme in the Caribbean, established in 1984, and continues to be a firm favourite among international investors across the world.

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July 19, 2023

Learning Model Launched To Spur Curiosity Among Learners

A learning model that seeks to sharpen learners with critical thinking skills and spur their curiosity has been officially launched for the first time in Kenya at Mwala, Machakos County. The method known as Question Formulation Technique (QFT) is a structured approach aimed at helping learners develop their questioning techniques. Besides, the method sparks curiosity and inquisitiveness amongst learners, who use the questionnaire model to spur interactive learning sessions. Professor Josephat Kimatu of South Eastern Kenya University (SEKU) made the disclosure during a Kenya Connect graduation in Wamunyu, Mwala, where 60 teachers from ten public secondary schools in Mwala graduated after the two-year QFT course. The teachers are expected to empower learners with question formulation techniques. Professor Kimatu, who is the implementer of the QFT project, said that it is a pilot study and is being implemented in Kenya for the first time, even though it has been studied in the United States and some other countries and enabled learners to be very creative and innovative. ‘In Kenya, we don’t teach Critical Thinking as a subject, unlike in the US, where they teach it as a subject, and now we want to introduce critical thinking in our country,’ said the Professor. He said that the Questioning technique skills are what the learners are lacking because usually students are expected to give answers and not ask questions, thus limiting their creativity, yet as learners they should question everything. He added that they want the teachers to be given as many questions as possible, answer them in the context of their lessons, and come up with a question focus where they converge all the divergent questions to allow the students to frame the right questions and receive the right answers. He noted that during the piloting of QFT, the learners became more inquisitive and the teachers became more engaging with the students, who thus began to own the lessons, which was not the case previously. Kimatu pointed out that they are also going to pilot it with the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) so that they can include it in the CBC for easy implementation. The Executive Director of Kenya Connect, James Musyoka, said that QFT is a pedagogical strategy which is a shift from their traditional way of teaching, where teachers ask students questions, and now it’s the learners who are doing the questioning. The Kenya Connect Director, who is also the Co-Founder of Kenya Connect, said that the focus was on training the teachers to work with students so that the students can be able to generate meaningful questions, which will in turn raise their curiosity. ‘In Kenya Connect, we believe empowering the teacher translates to empowering the students, so today was a celebration of 60 teachers graduating to be able to empower and help learners become critical thinkers and ask meaningful questions,’ added Musyoka. He added that it is through inquiry that people search for knowledge, and when the QFT method is entrenched in the school systems, it will encourage research and innovation in academic circles. Musyoka pointed out that they will do research, and when they get the findings, they will recommend it to the Ministry of Education for it to be entrenched in the school curriculum and become part and parcel of learning in Kenya. PaulineMMueni,a trainee beneficiary, urged teachers to embrace the technique since it is a model that accommodates all learners despite their differences in comprehension capabilities. She said that learners get motivated when they are allowed to ask questions and they are answered correctly, thus building their confidence.

Source: Kenya News Agency

July 19, 2023

Achani Urges Youth To Avoid Opposition-Led Protests

Kwale Governor Fatuma Achani has called on the youth to keep off the anti-government protests called by the opposition. The opposition Azimio coalition has called for three days of countrywide demonstrations to protest against tax hikes and the high cost of living, beginning today, Wednesday to Friday. Governor Achani called on the youth to help in the maintenance and sustenance of peace in the county and country. She has cautioned the youth not to allow themselves to be used to instigate violence and cause trouble. She said the youth should strive to safeguard and uphold the peaceful atmosphere in Kwale. According to Achani, it was prudent for every youth to see themselves as peace agents and live together in harmony to enable the maintenance of peace and security to always prevail in Kwale. The county boss says the coastal county thrives on a fragile tourism sector that is sensitive to violent protests. ‘The fragile tourism sector is our economic mainstay, and we should jealously guard it from any interference that would scare away holidaymakers,’ she said. She warned that such planned protests were aimed at bringing down the country and the incumbent administration of Kenya Kwanza. Achani stressed that the anti-government demonstrations could result in deadly stand-offs with the police and degenerate into looting, stealing, destroying properties, and killing innocent citizens. ‘As local leadership, we are urging the youth not to be deceived by the antics of those claiming to be fighting their cause,’ she said, calling for calm. Speaking to the media in her office in Kwale town, the UDA Governor said she believes there is no need for violence and asked religious leaders to inculcate peace values among the youth. Achani further advised well-meaning residents to embrace peace, eschew violence, and not allow themselves to be cajoled into joining illegal protests called by aggrieved groups, individuals, and politicians pretending to be agitating for a better Kenya. ‘We want the residents to continue to pray for peace in our county and country as they pursue their socio-economic activities,’ she said. She highlighted the need for the youth to come together as one people with a common interest, which aims at building and maintaining the peace of Kwale and Kenya at large.

Source: Kenya News Agency