Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 10th, 2026, FinanceWire

The Islamic finance challenger introduces its first product following a pre-seed investment round backed by banking and technology leaders.

• Wafr announces WafrChain, its platform for on-chain Shariah-compliant sukuk, as the first step towards a global Islamic financial platform.
• The pre-seed round includes individual investments from Coen Jonker, co-founder of Tyme Group, and Neal Cross, former Chief Innovation Officer of DBS Bank.
• WafrChain brings sukuk issuance, distribution, settlement and profit payments onto one institutional platform, with issuers’ Shariah board approvals recorded on-chain and support for fiat and stablecoin settlement.
• WafrChain addresses a global sukuk market with US$1.14 trillion outstanding in 2025, when annual issuance grew 14.5% to US$291.4 billion.

Wafr, a financial technology company building a global Islamic financial platform, today announces its pre-seed funding round and the launch of WafrChain, its first product for on-chain Shariah-compliant sukuk, with sukuk tokenisation now live on the platform.

The round brings together individual investors including Coen Jonker, co-founder of Tyme Group and former Commonwealth Bank of Australia Group Executive, and Neal Cross, co-founder of PictureWealth and former Chief Innovation Officer of DBS Bank.

Wafr’s co-founding team includes Chief Executive Officer Mahmoud Bouchelif, a former Islamic banker and founder of LeanTech SG, and Chief Product Officer Anthony Murphy, whose experience includes launching digital banking products at AMP, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Macquarie Bank. Bouchelif built LeanTech SG into a profitable business with 7-figure revenue, without external funding, and has advised GCC banking leaders on digital transformation for approximately a decade.

Wafr’s purpose, “Abundance for everyone”, reflects its ambition to make fair, transparent and ethical financial services accessible across borders. The company is building towards a global financial platform rooted in Shariah-compliant principles and open to people of every faith, connecting institutional infrastructure with services for individuals and businesses.

Sukuk remain one of the most complex instruments in Islamic finance to bring to market. A single issuance typically involves eight separate parties, including the issuer, the trustee, arrangers, the Shariah board, custodians, the paying agent, distributors and investors, each keeping its own record of the same instrument. Every transfer, profit payment and corporate action is re-keyed and reconciled between them, adding cost, delay and the risk of error to each issuance, which can take many months and in some cases more than a year to bring to market.

WafrChain is a private, permissioned blockchain designed to connect the institutions involved in the sukuk lifecycle through a shared record. Instrument terms, including unit price, profit schedule, and maturity, are recorded on-chain alongside the approval of the issuer’s own Shariah board before distribution, while Wafr’s Shariah board works with each issuer to confirm that the structure is compliant. The platform connects issuers with distributors and institutional buyers and uses smart contracts to route profit payments. Settlement can take place in fiat currency, through local real-time gross settlement systems and SWIFT, or in stablecoins, and institutions can integrate WafrChain with their existing systems through a single API.

The network has been built for the speed and confidentiality that financial institutions require. Transactions reach finality in 300 milliseconds, and each participant can see only its own activity, so issuers, distributors and investors keep their positions private from one another. WafrChain is also designed to continue operating with only a third of its nodes active.

Mahmoud Bouchelif, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wafr, said: “Islamic finance can bring abundance to people, businesses and economies, yet access to services that reflect its principles remains uneven. We are building Wafr for everyone who believes finance should be fair, transparent and ethical, whatever their faith. WafrChain is our starting point, giving institutions a foundation for bringing Shariah-compliant assets on-chain while we develop the services people need to manage their financial lives across borders.”

Anthony Murphy, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Wafr, said: “At Wafr, we start with the problems people and businesses are actually facing and focus on how we can solve them in a practical way. We believe technology is critical if we are going to make Shariah-compliant and ethical financial services simpler, more accessible and more relevant to how people manage their money today, while bringing the principles behind Islamic finance to more people around the world. WafrChain is the first product built with that thinking, and it sets the direction for how we want to build at Wafr.”

Coen Jonker, co-founder of Tyme Group and an angel investor in Wafr, said: “I have long believed that someone will build a truly global digital finance business for the Muslim world. The need is clear, the opportunity is enormous, and the technology now makes it possible to think beyond traditional banking models. Wafr is pursuing that ambition with a clear sense of purpose, and I’m excited by Mahmoud’s determination and his co-founders to make it happen.”

Neal Cross – Co-founder, PictureWealth, ex-DBS Chief Innovation Officer added: “Everyone talks about what blockchain could do for finance. Wafr is one of the few teams starting with the customers who need it most. Islamic finance was built on trust, transparency and shared risk, which is exactly what blockchain does best. Add founders like Mahmoud and Anthony, who don’t build things for show, and backing them was an easy decision.” 

According to the ICD–LSEG Islamic Finance Development Report 2026, global Islamic finance assets reached US$6.5 trillion in 2025, up 9% year on year. Sukuk outstanding stood at US$1.14 trillion, while annual issuance rose 14.5% to US$291.4 billion.

Beyond sukuk, Wafr’s institutional roadmap includes fund tokenisation, tokenised deposits, trade finance and business-to-business settlement. Its consumer plans span global accounts, cross-border remittances and cards, with agentic AI and stablecoin-enabled settlement forming part of its wider development strategy. These plans support Wafr’s ambition to expand financial access for unbanked and underserved communities across markets. Wafr’s consumer services will be introduced in line with the applicable regulatory processes and approvals, working with licensed partners where required.

About Wafr

Wafr is a financial technology company building a global Islamic financial platform for individuals, businesses and institutions. Serving a global Islamic finance market with US$5 trillion in assets, the company aims to make fair, transparent and Shariah-compliant financial services accessible across borders through an on-chain-first architecture.

The launch product, WafrChain, is a private, permissioned blockchain designed to support the tokenisation and lifecycle of Shariah-compliant assets, beginning with sukuk. It connects issuance, distribution, settlement and profit payments within a shared institutional platform.

Wafr’s wider roadmap includes global accounts, cross-border remittances and cards, with agentic AI and stablecoin-enabled settlement central to its development plans. Guided by “Abundance for everyone”, Wafr aims to expand financial inclusion for unbanked and underserved communities through services open to people of every faith. For more information, users can visit https://wafrchain.com/

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Virse enables packaging designers, DTC brands, and print account teams to map exported 2D box dieline layouts onto photorealistic 3D carton renders across kraft, matte, and gloss substrates on one visual canvas.

United States, 10th Nov 2026 – Virse provides packaging designers, direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand teams, and print account managers with a dedicated dieline to 3D render workflow inside its node-based Creative Canvas. Built to bridge the gap between flat vector layout files and client approval decks, the tool maps existing flat package artwork onto folded three-dimensional box and carton previews without requiring dedicated 3D modeling software.

Anyone who has managed a consumer product launch knows how difficult it is for non-designers to read a flat packaging dieline on a monitor. To a structural designer or pre-press operator, the grid of trim lines, score folds, glue flaps, and inverted top tucks makes complete sense. To a startup founder, retail buyer, or marketing VP asking what is a dieline for the first time, that same flat file looks like an upside-down puzzle. Critical layout mistakes frequently hide in flat proofs: a hero illustration wraps awkwardly around a side crease, a nutrition panel sits too close to a bottom tuck flap, or a dark background color overwhelms the shelf presence once all four faces come together.

Traditionally, catching those visual issues before ordering a physical wet proof meant either folding a paper printout with tape at a desk or exporting UV textures into complex 3D rendering software, building studio lights from scratch, and waiting on long shader renders. Virse streamlines that step by letting designers run a dieline to 3d pass directly on the same visual canvas where they manage their brand assets and campaign photography.

Reading flat artwork, box geometry, and substrate finishes together

Unlike generic stock-template mockups that paste a single front label onto a pre-rendered white box, Virse’s workflow reads the user’s actual exported flat file so panel relationships stay faithful to the layout. When a designer drops a flat box dieline export onto the canvas, the tool combines three pieces of input to construct the preview: the exported 2D layout containing the front face, side gussets, top lid, and wrap-around graphics; plain-language specifications naming the package style and substrate finish; and an optional studio tabletop or retail shelf background photograph that guides shadow direction.

Designers can specify reverse tuck-top cosmetic cartons, corrugated e-commerce mailers, or two-piece rigid sleeve-and-base boxes alongside paperboard notes such as uncoated brown kraft, soft-touch matte lamination, or high-gloss spot UV highlights. Because Virse hosts 50+ AI models alongside its in-house aesthetic model on one infinite workspace, a packaging designer can generate multiple material studies from a single flat file and compare them side by side. One node can show a tea carton rendered in textured matte cotton board under warm morning light, while an adjacent node previews the exact same artwork on a glossy coated carton for e-commerce hero listings.

“Packaging teams lose days waiting for physical comp samples or 3D scene setups just to check whether a wrap-around graphic lines up across a corner fold,” said a spokesperson for Virse. “With Virse, a designer exports their flat artwork, specifies the carton style and paper stock, and puts a realistic 3d box mockup in front of the client in minutes.”

Connecting packaging previews to brand identity, surface prints, and color grading

In a working design studio, a packaging prototype render is part of a broader visual system. Virse’s node-based Creative Canvas keeps every upstream asset and downstream marketing visual connected so teams do not have to juggle files across separate apps.

When developing a new product line, designers can establish the core color palette, logo lockups, and typographic hierarchy in the brand kit generator, locking those rules into Virse’s Aesthetic Memory before laying out the carton panels. If a cosmetic box or specialty food wrapper calls for a decorative background motif, the team can pull a flat repeatable print from a fabric or paper sample using the workflow to extract pattern from image files and place that motif onto the flat dieline.

For products that require usage or assembly illustrations on the side or back panel, designers can convert a studio product snapshot into a crisp contour drawing via the photo to line art tool before exporting the final flat artwork. Once the 3D carton render is generated on the canvas, e-commerce teams can run a reference image color grading pass on the workspace to align the highlights and shadow warmth of the packaging render with their real-world lifestyle campaign photography.

Throughout the review cycle, Virse Composer stays available on the canvas to help teams test alternate studio backgrounds or lighting angles via conversational prompts, and approved renders can be stored in shared Asset Folders for retail pitch decks and Amazon or Shopify listing pages.

How to convert a dieline to a 3D packaging render

Packaging designers and brand managers follow a direct sequence on Virse. They export the completed 2D package layout from their vector editor as a clean PNG or JPG image, drop it onto the canvas, and note the carton structure and surface finish. Optionally attaching a studio surface or shelf reference photo guides perspective and shadow falloff. Running the render produces the folded 3D view on the canvas, where teams can branch nodes to compare matte versus gloss substrates side by side.

Virse maintains clear technical boundaries so packaging engineers and print buyers know where this tool sits in the production chain. The Dieline to Render workflow transforms an existing flat artwork file into a 3D presentation image. It does not generate structural die-cut templates from scratch, calculate flute folding allowances, export editable 3D meshes (such as OBJ or FBX files), or replace physical drop-test validation at the box plant.

Packaging studios, consumer goods founders, and print coordinators can preview their flat box layouts in 3D on virse.ai using 200 complimentary starter credits. Paid workspace tiers (Pro, Max, and Business) provide expanded monthly compute capacity and shared project folders for teams of up to 50 collaborators.

About Virse

Virse is a visual AI creative system architected by machine learning researchers and commercial designers with a collective track record of over 100 international design awards. Headquartered in Dover, Delaware, Virse brings 50+ specialized image models, Virse Composer, and Aesthetic Memory together on an interactive node-based canvas. Packaging agencies, e-commerce brands, and in-house studios rely on Virse to connect concept exploration, mockup rendering, and campaign production in one workspace.

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China, 10th Nov 2026 – From October 10 to 11, the Second Confucian Educational Culture Forum and Qufu Educational Philosophy Forum was held at Qufu Normal University. Researchers from Southwest University, Northeast Normal University, Shandong University, Nankai University, Shanxi Normal University, Hunan Normal University, Zhejiang Normal University, Hangzhou Normal University, and other universities gathered in the hometown of Confucius for in-depth discussions.

The participating experts and scholars focused on topics such as “Confucian Ontology and Reflections on the AI Education Paradigm,” “Confucian Educational Culture in Contemporary Chinese Education,” and “Confucian Educational Civilization and the Construction of an Autonomous Knowledge System for Chinese Pedagogy,” delivering a series of substantive keynote reports and sharing diverse ideas and perspectives. The forum also held discussions on compiling the Handbook of Confucianism and Education. Leonard J. Waks, former professor at the College of Education at Temple University in the United States and overseas distinguished professor at the College of Education of Qufu Normal University, along with Professor Gao Wei, Dean of the College of Education of Qufu Normal University, and Professor Zhang Hua of the College of Education of Qufu Normal University, provided a systematic interpretation of the conceptual plan for compiling the handbook. Professor Waks pointed out that Western understanding of Chinese culture still contained biases, and he hoped that through the planning of a Confucian education research project, Confucian educational wisdom could be spread to the world.

This forum focused on the historical context and contemporary value of Confucian education, closely addressed the issues of educational transformation in the intelligent era, and connected traditional educational wisdom with modern educational practice. It established a high-level and diversified academic exchange platform and injected intellectual momentum into the construction of an autonomous knowledge system for Chinese pedagogy.

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Virse provides streetwear labels, uniform suppliers, and clubs with an AI patch designer on its Creative Canvas to preview custom emblems in embroidered twill, chenille, woven damask, and PVC before digitizing.

United States, 10th Nov 2026 – Virse provides streetwear labels, outdoor clubs, uniform suppliers, and custom merchandise studios with a dedicated AI patch generator inside its node-based Creative Canvas. Built to turn rough emblem ideas, team mascots, and written themes into realistic embroidered patch design concepts, the workflow lets creative teams compare badge silhouettes, border stitches, and backing textures side by side before ordering physical embroidery samples.

Custom patches remain a staple across workwear jackets, canvas daypacks, tactical unit gear, and collegiate club merchandise. Yet designing a patch that actually holds up in thread is very different from drawing a flat digital sticker. Fine gradient shading, tiny serif text under four millimeters, and crowded line intersections quickly turn into an unreadable blob once a multi-head embroidery machine lays down polyester thread on twill backing. When a club organizer or junior apparel designer sends a flat graphic to a patch factory without accounting for stitch density or border width, the resulting pre-production sample often comes back looking nothing like the original sketch.

Virse helps teams spot those visual trade-offs early by letting them explore patch design online as tactile, material-aware concept renders on an infinite canvas. Instead of guessing how a flat vector logo will look when framed by a heavy overlock stitch, users can generate realistic patch previews that show thread direction, twill weave visibility, and raised border geometry from the very first round of ideation.

Comparing twill, chenille, woven, and PVC patch concepts on one canvas

Different garments and use cases call for completely different badge construction. A heavyweight wool varsity jacket calls for lofty chenille felt, an alpine hiking pack needs a weather-resistant molded PVC or tightly woven badge, and a classic mechanic’s work shirt looks best with a traditional 75% embroidered twill crest and a thick merrowed edge.

When a designer opens the patch generator on Virse, they start by entering the subject, text banner, and badge silhouette, or by dropping an existing crest sketch onto the canvas. From there, the workflow allows teams to compare distinct construction aesthetics side by side. Users can test classic circular and shield crests alongside arched rocker banners, hexagonal cuts, or custom die-cut shapes, comparing thick merrowed overlock borders against flat laser-cut or heat-cut edges.

Designers can also branch a single emblem across multiple canvas nodes to see how the same artwork reads as raised satin-stitch embroidery, fine-detail woven damask, fuzzy varsity chenille, or matte 3D PVC rubber. Using Virse’s 50+ integrated AI models and Aesthetic Memory, teams lock in their seasonal thread palette while testing dark navy, olive drab, or unbleached cotton twill backgrounds. Because every iteration lives as a visible node on Virse’s Creative Canvas, an art director or club committee can review six or eight patch mockup options on one screen, trace each variant back to the original brief, and use Virse Composer to simplify crowded lettering or widen a border in plain language.

“A patch has physical texture, thread sheen, and edge thickness that a flat illustration simply cannot show,” said a spokesperson for Virse. “Virse gives apparel designers and club organizers a fast way to test how an emblem works in embroidered twill, chenille, or woven form before they commit to digitizing and factory sampling.”

Extending patch concepts across backpacks, team jerseys, tees, and coins

In both streetwear fashion and club merchandising, an embroidered badge is rarely developed in isolation. Usually, a patch is one piece of a seasonal capsule drop or an annual commemorative kit. Virse’s connected workspace allows designers to branch their approved patch ai concept directly into companion merchandise tools on the same canvas.

Outdoor and commuter bag brands designing hook-and-loop morale patches or sewn-on front-pocket badges can connect their patch node directly to the ai backpack designer to evaluate how the badge color and proportion sit against ripstop nylon or waxed canvas bag bodies. Sports organizers, collegiate societies, and alumni teams developing sleeve crests or chest emblems can pair their patch concept with the ai baseball jersey generator to verify that the badge colors coordinate cleanly with uniform pinstripes, piping, and player numbering.

Independent clothing labels building a coordinated drop can carry the central mascot or emblem from their jacket patch straight into the ai t-shirt design generator to test chest-pocket or full back-print graphic placements. For military units, first-responder battalions, and anniversary events producing both uniform patches and metal keepsakes, designers can also branch the approved crest into a commemorative challenge coin design board on the same workspace.

Once a collection is finalized, teams can organize all approved badge renders, garment previews, and reusable Smart Nodes inside Virse’s shared Asset Folders so production managers and external vendors work from a single source of truth.

Four steps to create a custom patch concept before digitizing

Designers and organizers follow a four-step workflow on Virse to take an emblem from idea to visual mockup. They describe the central illustration, motto text, and silhouette, or upload a sketch onto the canvas. Second, they select embroidered twill, woven fabric, chenille felt, or PVC, noting whether the edge needs a raised merrowed border or a die-cut trim. Third, they generate concepts across canvas nodes to test thread color combinations and text legibility before refining details with Virse Composer and exporting the visual mockup for their digitizer.

Virse sets clear boundaries around what the tool delivers. The AI Patch Designer generates 2D visual concept renders and surface mockups for creative sign-off and vendor quoting. It does not output machine embroidery stitch files (such as DST, PES, or EXP formats) and does not manufacture physical patches. Users looking for a free ai patch generator trial can start immediately with the 200 free compute credits included on every new Virse account, while studio production runs on Pro, Max, and Business plans supporting up to 50 team seats.

Streetwear labels, uniform coordinators, and club merchandisers can begin testing custom badge concepts directly on virse.ai.

About Virse

Designed by AI researchers and creative technologists whose backgrounds span more than 100 international design awards, Virse is a human-led AI creative system tailored for apparel, merchandise, and brand studios. Headquartered in Dover, Delaware, the platform unifies 50+ generative and production models with Virse Composer and Aesthetic Memory on a node-based Creative Canvas. Teams use Virse to develop emblems, apparel mockups, and seasonal merchandise boards in a single shared environment.

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SECA has expanded its sewer camera range in Australia with two new HD inspection systems: the Trade Camera and iPEK PushLite Pro.The Trade Camera, priced at $3,750 plus GST, is designed for everyday plumbing and drain inspections. The PushLite Pro, priced at $12,750 plus GST, supports professional sewer and stormwater inspections for contractors, councils and water utilities.Both cameras offer HD recording, self-levelling camera heads and built-in sondes. Backed by SECA’s Australian technical support, servicing and spare parts, these additions give professionals more options to match their inspection needs and budgets.

Sydney, Queensland, Australia, 10th Nov 2026 –  SECA, an Australian supplier of sewer, stormwater, drain and pipe equipment, has expanded its range of sewer camera in Australia with new push camera models for plumbers and drainage contractors. The iPEK PushLite Pro and Trade Camera are now available through the SECA website. Both systems feature HD video recording, self-levelling camera heads and built-in sondes for underground locating. The PushLite Pro is priced at $12,750 plus GST, while the Trade Camera is available for $3,750 plus GST.

The new models widen the range at the working end. Many sewer and stormwater inspections need clear video, photos and a way to locate the camera. They do not need pan and tilt heads or full reporting software. The PushLite Pro and the Trade Camera cover that routine work, and each carries a clear price on its product page.

Sewer cameras Australia plumbers and contractors can match to the job

SECA has supplied drain cleaning, sewer inspection, pipeline testing and rehabilitation equipment since 1967. Its camera range now runs across three tiers, so a buyer can start with the job in front of them.

Hathorn push cameras sit at the plumbing end of the range. They include the Hathorn H7 Standard Camera System and the Hathorn Micron Wi-Fi Camera Reel. The iPEK Agilios XR system suits inspection contractors who want integrated WinCan reporting and an upgrade path. The iPEK Rovion crawler system suits councils and infrastructure owners who inspect larger networks.

The Trade Camera and the PushLite Pro add two routine-inspection options beside the Hathorn systems. Buyers who compare sewer cameras Australia-wide can now weigh them against their pipe sizes, inspection distances and budget.

Trade Camera, an HD push camera for everyday plumbing inspections

The Trade Camera targets plumbers and small pipe reliners who handle domestic drain inspections and relining work. SECA lists it for pipe sizes from DN30 to DN200.

The system includes the following.

• HD 1080p video from a 23 mm self-levelling camera head
• a 13.3-inch LCD screen
• 50 metres of 6.8 mm push rod
• a 512 Hz sonde
• camera skids, a wireless keyboard and mouse, and mains and vehicle chargers

“Plenty of plumbers need a reliable HD camera for everyday jobs, and they do not need a full reporting system,” said John Bourke, SECA. “The Trade Camera gives them a clear picture, 50 metres of rod and a sonde at a price that suits a small business. SECA backs it with spare parts and service.” 

Plumbers who search for a drain camera or a sewer inspection camera often weigh price against support and features. The Trade Camera aims at that middle ground.

iPEK PushLite Pro, a 60 m HD push camera for routine inspection

iPEK builds the PushLite Pro, and SECA supplies and supports it in Australia. It targets contractors, councils and water authorities that run routine sewer and stormwater inspections.

SECA lists the PushLite Pro for pipes from 90 mm to 300 mm. The system includes the following.

• a 60 m push rod, 12 mm thick
• Full HD 1080p video and photo capture
• a self-levelling camera head with a sonde
• an internal battery, so crews need no site power
• a steel frame, an IP54-rated operator box and a pivoting reel with an adjustable brake
• skids as standard

iPEK designed the PushLite Pro for video, photos and locating. It leaves out pan and tilt and WinCan reporting software, which keeps the system focused on day-to-day pipe inspection. Teams that need defect coding and structured reports can move up to the Agilios XR or the Rovion with WinCan. Where a council or water utility requires it, a SECA representative can help match the camera to the reporting requirement.

Local support behind both cameras

A sewer camera earns its price only while it stays on the road. Both new models come with local support through SECA.

• Service and parts. SECA services both cameras. It handles PushLite Pro re-termination through its national network and supplies Trade Camera spare parts.
• Locators. Both cameras include a sonde. SECA sells sonde locators and receivers separately, including options such as the Rycom SnapTRACK.
• Training. SECA Academy offers Nationally Recognised Training through Asset Training (RTO No. 91255). Courses include Drain Cleaning and High Pressure Water Jetting, and Conduit Reporting using WinCan Inspection Software. On-site training is available.
• Reporting software. SECA is the authorised Australian supplier of WinCan. WinCan supports the production of WSAA-aligned inspection reports where a client requires them.

How buyers can get started

Buyers comparing sewer cameras for sale can open each product page. Each page lists the specifications, the price and common questions, so sewer camera prices are easy to compare. The Trade Camera and the iPEK PushLite Pro both have their own pages.

Buyers who are unsure which tier suits their work can ask the SECA team. A good brief covers four points.

1. The pipe sizes you inspect most often.
2. How far you push the camera on a typical job.
3. Whether the job needs defect coding or a report for a council or utility.
4. Whether you want to start small and upgrade later.

SECA will confirm which camera fits before it quotes. The team supports plumbers, drainage and civil contractors, councils, water utilities and property professionals from offices in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, and ships equipment Australia-wide.

Browse the full range of CCTV pipe and drain cameras.

About SECA

SECA is a sewer, stormwater, drains and pipe equipment company. It began in 1967 and supplies councils, water utilities, licensed plumbers, drainage and civil contractors and property professionals. Its range covers CCTV inspection cameras, water jetting equipment, mechanical drain cleaning machines, pipeline testing products and trenchless rehabilitation systems. SECA is the authorised Australian supplier of WinCan inspection software. It operates from Chipping Norton in New South Wales, Ormeau in Queensland and Dandenong South in Victoria. Learn more at seca.com.au.

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Octopus Bridge connects POS systems with eCommerce platforms and marketplaces, helping retailers synchronize inventory, orders, and product data across physical and online channels while reducing manual work.

San Jose, CA, United States, 10th Nov 2026 – Retailers today rarely sell in just one place. A single business may run a physical store, an online shop, and listings on one or more marketplaces. Each channel brings new customers. Each also brings another system to keep up to date.

24Seven Commerce is highlighting how its integration platform, Octopus Bridge, helps retailers manage this shift. The platform connects supported point-of-sale (POS) systems with eCommerce platforms and online marketplaces, so stock levels, orders, and product information can move between them automatically.

The problem with disconnected retail systems

Most retailers did not plan a multi-channel business from the start. They added channels over time. A store opened with a POS system. A website came later. Marketplace listings followed.

As a result, many businesses run systems that do not share information. Staff update stock counts in one place and then repeat the work in another. Online orders are re-entered into the store system by hand. Price changes must be made separately on each channel.

This creates gaps. When an item sells in store but still shows as available online, a customer may order something the retailer cannot ship. When product details differ between channels, shoppers may lose confidence. And the hours spent on repetitive updates take staff away from customers and planning.

Why inventory synchronization matters

Inventory is usually where these gaps appear first. Every channel draws from the same physical stock, but disconnected systems each keep their own count.

Inventory synchronization addresses this by keeping quantities consistent across connected channels. For example, a clothing retailer selling the same jacket in store, on its website, and on a marketplace can have the available quantity updated across those channels after a sale, rather than adjusting each listing by hand.

Accurate stock data also supports better purchasing. When retailers can see what is selling across all channels, they are better placed to decide what to reorder and what to hold back.

Bringing online orders into the store system

Order management is another common pressure point. Online orders often sit in a separate dashboard, away from the POS system staff use every day.

Octopus Bridge can transfer online orders into supported POS systems. This gives retailers a more complete view of sales in one place and reduces the need to re-key order details. For businesses that offer in-store pickup or ship from store stock, it also helps staff see what needs to be fulfilled.

Working with the systems retailers already use

Octopus Bridge is designed to connect existing retail technology rather than replace it. Its capabilities include:

• Two-way data synchronization between supported POS and eCommerce systems
• Automatic inventory updates across connected sales channels
• Transfer of online orders to supported POS systems
• Synchronization of product information, including descriptions, pricing, and images

Supported POS systems include Lightspeed Retail (R-Series and X-Series), Retail Pro, Counterpoint, QuickBooks POS, Heartland Retail, and Bepoz, among others. Supported eCommerce platforms include Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, and Wix. The platform also supports marketplace channels including Amazon, eBay, and Walmart.

Available features and sync options can vary depending on the specific POS and eCommerce combination.

A practical step toward connected retail

For many independent and growing retailers, connected operations do not require changing every system at once. Linking the POS to the online store is often a practical first step. It reduces manual data entry, improves inventory visibility, and makes it easier to add new sales channels over time.

Retailers can learn more about supported integrations at https://www.24sevencommerce.com/.

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Virse equips soft-goods designers, luggage brands, and outdoor gear teams with an AI backpack designer on its Creative Canvas to generate coordinated front, profile, and rear exterior pack renders across fabrics and colorways.

United States, 10th Nov 2026 – Virse equips bag and luggage brands, freelance soft-goods designers, and outdoor gear merchandising teams with a dedicated AI backpack designer inside its node-based Creative Canvas. Built specifically for visual exterior concept development, the workflow lets designers generate multi-angle bag renders, test fabric and hardware combinations, and compare seasonal colorways side by side before committing to physical sample sewing.

Developing a new commuter daypack, alpine rucksack, or collegiate bookbag requires balancing silhouette proportion, pocket layout, and material contrast across several viewing angles. A front-panel sketch alone rarely tells the whole story. Merchandisers and retail buyers want to see how the side water-bottle gussets sit against the main compartment, how the contoured shoulder straps attach to the back panel, and whether a high-contrast zipper pull works across three different seasonal colorways. In traditional soft-goods workflows, rendering realistic front, three-quarter, and rear views in five fabric combinations takes days of manual digital painting or 3D cloth simulation before a sample room ever cuts a yard of nylon.

Virse shortens that early concept review cycle by placing its backpack design generator directly on an infinite visual canvas. Rather than producing a single static front view that forgets the bag’s structure on the next prompt, the workspace helps designers explore cohesive multi-angle exterior concepts while keeping their reference sketches, fabric swatches, and brand logos linked as visible nodes.

Reviewing colorways, fabrics, and multi-angle silhouettes side by side

When searching for terms like ai backpack or ai backpack design, commercial gear designers are not looking for novelty gadgets; they need a practical visual tool that understands soft-goods construction language. Virse’s workflow is structured around the actual decisions a bag designer makes during line planning.

From a single concept node, designers can generate coordinated front, three-quarter profile, and back-panel strap views so the team can evaluate depth, gusset taper, and carry geometry together. Once a silhouette is approved, the user can branch that node across the canvas to compare heritage olive waxed canvas with tan leather lash tabs against matte black 500D Cordura, technical ripstop nylon, or high-visibility trail color blocks. Designers can also attach an existing brand mark or woven label reference directly to the canvas node to preview how their logo sits on the top stash pocket, front daisy chain, or shoulder strap webbing.

Because Virse unites 50+ AI models with its in-house aesthetic model and Aesthetic Memory, a soft-goods team can maintain consistent studio lighting and material realism across an entire 12-piece carry collection. If a creative director wants to swap a roll-top closure for a clam-shell zip or test a contrasting Hypalon base panel, they can instruct Virse Composer in plain language right on the canvas.

“Soft-goods teams need to see how pocket proportions, fabric textures, and colorway blocks hold up from more than one angle before they brief a sample maker,” said a spokesperson for Virse. “Virse gives bag designers a connected canvas where they can iterate on silhouettes, attach their own brand emblems, and review an entire seasonal colorway matrix on one screen.”

Connecting backpack concepts with line art, surface prints, and embroidered patches

In an accessory or outdoor apparel studio, a custom backpack design project connects directly to textile print development, technical line drawings, and custom trim badges. Virse’s node-based Creative Canvas allows designers to link their bag renders with companion tools across the platform.

When a designer starts from a taped paper mockup or a vintage archive pack, they can pass a smartphone snapshot through the line art extractor to isolate clean seam lines and pocket proportions for early design critiques. For campus daypacks, resort totes, or kids’ back-to-school lines that feature patterned panels, textile designers can pull a flat repeatable motif from a swatch photo using the fabric pattern design workflow and test that print across the backpack’s front pocket and main body panels.

Streetwear and outdoor packs frequently feature sewn-on woven labels, chenille crests, or hook-and-loop morale badges. Teams can develop those custom badges in the embroidered patch design tool and branch them directly onto their backpack concept board. When combining rendered bag concepts with studio photography for a pre-book sales deck, retouchers can also apply image color transfer on the canvas from a master campaign photo so every visual shares uniform contrast and color warmth.

All approved bag renders, colorway matrices, and reusable Smart Nodes can be saved into Virse’s shared Asset Folders, keeping industrial designers, graphic artists, and product line managers aligned inside one workspace.

Four steps to run the AI backpack design generator on Virse

Designers and product developers follow a four-step sequence on the canvas to build and review bag concepts. They start by specifying whether the concept is a 15-inch urban commuter pack, a 30-liter alpine hiking pack, a camera bag, or a campus daypack. Second, they detail the shell fabric (ballistic nylon, waxed duck canvas, recycled ripstop, or leather), hardware finishes, pocket layout, and color palette. Third, they optionally attach a brand emblem or silhouette sketch on the canvas before running the ai backpack design generator to compare front, side, and rear perspectives.

Virse maintains clear boundaries regarding what the tool produces. The AI Backpack Design Generator outputs 2D multi-angle exterior renders and colorway previews for concept ideation, line reviews, and client presentations. It does not generate flat sewing cutting patterns, seam allowance markers, hardware bills of materials (BOMs), or factory-ready tech packs. Once a visual concept is selected, soft-goods developers use the approved renders as visual references when drafting factory specifications.

Soft-goods developers, carry brands, and industrial design students can explore custom backpack concepts on virse.ai starting with 200 complimentary compute credits. Teams managing seasonal carry collections can scale onto Pro, Max, or Business workspaces supporting up to 50 studio collaborators.

About Virse

Founded in Dover, Delaware, by AI researchers and industrial designers with more than 100 international design awards, Virse is a human-led AI creative system built for product, apparel, and brand teams. The workspace connects 50+ specialized image models, Virse Composer, and Aesthetic Memory inside a single node-based canvas. From initial silhouette sketches to multi-angle colorway boards and seasonal lookbooks, Virse keeps creative direction unified across every stage of visual development.

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Virse Enables Multi Angle Custom Backpack Design and Colorway Reviews on Canvas

Virse helps creative agencies, identity designers, and founders translate written briefs or live website URLs into cohesive visual brand concept boards combining logo directions, color palettes, and typography pairings.

United States, 10th Nov 2026 – Virse gives brand identity designers, boutique creative agencies, and startup founders a dedicated AI brand kit generator inside its node-based Creative Canvas. Designed to translate a written creative brief or an existing website URL into structured visual concept boards, the workflow brings logo directions, color palettes, typography pairings, and real-world application previews onto one connected workspace.

Early-stage identity projects often stall between the written strategy deck and the first visual presentation. When a founder or marketing lead asks what is a brand kit in practical terms, they are looking for how a mark, a color system, a headline typeface, and a photography mood actually hold together on real surfaces. Yet in many studios, those pieces are assembled in separate silos: color swatches sit in a slide deck, font specimens live in a PDF, and mockups are scattered across browser tabs. If a client sitting in a pitch review likes the warm terracotta palette from Direction A but prefers the geometric wordmark from Direction B, the designer usually has to adjourn the meeting and spend another day rebuilding the presentation boards.

Virse resolves that disconnected workflow by turning the brand kit generator into an interactive node on an infinite canvas. Instead of generating isolated logo icons on white backgrounds, the tool composes cohesive identity boards where wordmarks, accent colors, typographic hierarchy, and lifestyle textures appear together in context.

Starting from a live website URL or a plain-language creative brief

Different identity projects start from different places. A seed-stage company launching a specialty coffee roastery may only have a two-paragraph positioning brief and three reference photos, whereas an established B2B software company planning a visual refresh already has a live domain with existing brand equity.

Virse supports both starting points inside its branding kit generator workflow. For new ventures, founders and agency art directors can enter the company name, industry positioning, target audience, and visual tone in plain language, or attach reference imagery directly on the canvas to guide the initial concept board. For rebrands and visual refreshes, teams can point the tool at an existing website URL to extract current visual signals and branch modernized palette and typography alternatives side by side.

Because Virse integrates 50+ leading AI models alongside its in-house aesthetic model, designers can generate three or four distinct brand kit examples on parallel nodes, comparing a minimalist Swiss-grid direction against a warm editorial or heritage craft direction on the same screen. Once a team lands on a direction that fits the brief, Virse’s Aesthetic Memory captures that visual language. The chosen color relationships, lighting sensibility, and compositional tone stay active in the workspace so subsequent campaign visuals do not drift off-brand.

“An identity pitch succeeds when the client can immediately see how the logo, palette, and typography behave together in the real world,” said a spokesperson for Virse. “Virse gives designers and founders a connected canvas where they can explore multiple brand directions side by side, mix and match the strongest elements, and carry the approved aesthetic straight into downstream assets.”

Extending a brand concept board into stationery, packaging, and campaign photos

In a real launch schedule, approving the identity board is just the starting gun. Within days, the team needs stationery for trade shows, product illustrations for the website, carton previews for retail buyers, and color-matched photography for social channels. Virse’s node-based architecture lets designers pipe their approved brand identity generator board directly into specialized production tools on the very same canvas.

Drawing a connection line from the approved brand board, designers can open the business cards generator to test how the primary wordmark, brand colors, and contact hierarchy read across front-and-back card proposals. When a brand manual or landing page calls for minimalist product diagrams instead of heavy studio photos, teams can use the workflow to extract line art from image files, turning product snapshots into clean contour illustrations that match the brand’s visual restraint.

Once the graphic designer applies the new palette and typography to a flat carton layout, they can pass that flat file into the 3d box mockup tool to show stakeholders how the identity wraps around a folded retail box or mailer. To keep launch photos aligned with the brand board’s mood, art directors can also run a reference color transfer pass on the workspace that applies the warmth and shadow contrast of the brand’s hero reference image across every studio product shot.

At any point in the workflow, designers can call on Virse Composer to refine layout details in plain language, and store approved boards and reusable Smart Nodes inside shared Asset Folders for team-wide access.

Four steps to build a brand concept board on Virse

Teams using Virse to develop or refresh a visual identity follow a clear four-step process on the canvas. First, they enter a live website address for a brand refresh, or write a short brief describing the brand name, sector, and visual character. Second, they attach moodboard photos, reference palettes, or rough sketches on the canvas. Third, they run the tool across canvas nodes to review identity boards showing logo concepts, color swatches, type pairings, and application previews side by side, before using Virse Composer to iterate on the strongest board and lock the approved palette into Aesthetic Memory.

Virse maintains clear boundaries around what the tool delivers. The AI Brand Kit Generator produces 2D visual concept boards for creative exploration, pitch alignment, and mood direction. It does not output packaged vector master files (such as print-ready AI or EPS corporate manuals), perform legal trademark searches, or grant commercial font licenses. Once stakeholders sign off on a visual direction, identity designers finalize vector kerning and font licensing in their standard production tools.

Brand strategists, startup founders, and creative directors can generate their first identity concept boards on virse.ai with 200 free compute credits included upon registration. Pro, Max, and Business plans unlock higher monthly credit budgets and multi-seat studio collaboration for teams up to 50 people.

About Virse

Virse is a professional AI creative system built in Dover, Delaware, by a founding team of AI researchers and designers recognized with over 100 international design awards. The platform unites a node-based Creative Canvas, Aesthetic Memory, Virse Composer, and more than 50 generative and specialized design models in one workspace. Creative agencies and brand studios use Virse to align identity direction, packaging previews, and campaign visuals without losing context across tools.

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Virse Turns Creative Briefs Into Visual Concept Boards With AI Brand Kit Generator

United States, 10th Nov 2026 – The most discreet market in luxury is about to get its figures. Royal Sybaris, the international Off-Market network of luxury professionals, is launching the Off-Market Observatory, a free quarterly barometer published in French, English and Spanish. So that its first edition, planned for January 2027, rests on real figures, the Observatory is opening the selection of its first contributors today: practising luxury professionals, each one individually verified.

A market that leaves no trace

The open market is measured every day: price per square metre, time to sell, price cuts. The Off-Market leaves almost no trace, and that is its very purpose. An exceptional property sold without ever being published appears in no statistics before the deed is signed, and often not even after.

In France, up to 60% of high-end sales may already take place outside the portals (Sea View Property, 2023). Yet, to our knowledge, there is no regular indicator, comparable from one country to another, to verify it.

Owners therefore decide blind. They are often advised to seek maximum exposure, without anyone being able to tell them what that exposure costs. Royal Sybaris has given this cost a name: the exposure discount, the loss of value of an exceptional property left in public view for too long. Public cases are not hard to find. La Savannah, in Marnes-la-Coquette near Paris, put on the market at €26M in 2018, sold for €8M in 2025 (Le Parisien). Such cases illustrate the phenomenon; the Observatory’s mission is to measure it.

What the Observatory will measure

Every quarter, the barometer will publish four indicators, by sector, by country and by price segment:

• the Off-Market share of reported prestige transactions;
• the price gap between asking price and achieved price, Off-Market and after public exposure;
• time to sell, from mandate to signature, in both cases;
• the profile of sellers: their motives, their need for confidentiality, their geographical origin.

The first edition will cover prestige real estate. The other sectors will join the barometer as soon as they have enough contributors: yachts, private jets, watches and jewellery, collector cars, fine art, wealth and capital. Once a year, an Observatory book will present a full analysis of the year.

The barometer is free, by email or by post, on simple subscription.

Real figures, or no figures

The Observatory will publish no result before it has been measured. Its rules are set from the start:

• Verified professionals. Each contributor is admitted after their activity has been checked: professional card or licence, company, references.
• No individual data. Contributors answer in ranges, in fifteen to twenty minutes per quarter. They never share a client name, a property address or a transaction amount.
• Publication thresholds. A figure is published only if it rests on at least 10 contributors and 30 reported transactions, and if no single contributor accounts for more than 30% of the segment’s transactions. Below that, the segment is marked “not published this quarter”.
• A stated scope. The barometer measures what professionals report, not the entire market. Each edition states the number of contributors, the countries covered and the limits of the measurement.

Selecting the first contributors

The Observatory is looking, worldwide, for practising luxury professionals: prestige real estate agents and realtors, yacht and business aviation brokers, watchmakers and jewellers, collector car dealers, gallery owners and art advisers. The wealth and capital domain is open to wealth managers, family offices, private bankers, capital investors, chartered accountants and corporate lawyers.

Applications for the first edition are open until 21 January 2027, at royalsybaris.com/en/observatory-off-market/contributors.

Each contributor receives:

• early access to the results, with the detail for their sector and country;
• a citation, with their consent, in each edition and in press releases;
• introductions to the press, when a journalist is looking for an expert in their city or field;
• admission to the Circle of Royal Sybaris;
• the “Expert contributor 2027” badge, to display on their own channels.

“Everyone talks about the Off-Market; hardly anyone measures it. Every luxury professional knows it from experience, but alone, with their own address book. The Observatory brings together what they observe, to give sellers, and the press, figures they can rely on. We will publish nothing we have not measured.”

Albert Satre, founder of Royal Sybaris

For journalists

• The first edition will be sent under embargo, a few days before publication, to journalists subscribed to the Observatory’s press releases.
• Interviews with Albert Satre are available in French or English.
• Local experts, contributors to the Observatory, will be able to comment on their market, with their consent.
• Requests (interview, expert, charts, data) can be made at royalsybaris.com/en/observatory-off-market/press.

How to cite the barometer: “Source: Off-Market Observatory, Royal Sybaris, [edition]”.

Notes to editors

Off-Market transaction. A transaction concluded without the property, the object or its price having been published: no portal, no website, no social network, no press advertisement, no public auction. A confidential presentation to a small circle of qualified buyers or fellow professionals remains Off-Market.

Exposure discount. The loss of value of an exceptional property left in public view for too long. Every public price cut, every article, every photo that becomes famous tells the market that others have said no.

About Royal Sybaris

Royal Sybaris is an international Off-Market network of luxury professionals. It brings together prestige real estate agents, yacht and business aviation brokers, watchmakers, collector car dealers and other luxury trades, around one conviction: an exceptional property sells better before it is exposed. Its members present their properties there without a public price, to professionals who already know their buyers. Royal Sybaris publishes the Off-Market Observatory, a quarterly barometer in three languages. It was founded in 2014 by Albert Satre, who has worked in real estate since 2004. Its signature: “What matters is never on display.”

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Press area: royalsybaris.com/en/press

What matters is never on display.

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• Winter Village shuttle and an interactive lights-and-clues bus tour bring fresh ways to enjoy Toronto this season. 

TORONTO, Ontario, November 9, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, Gray Line Toronto is introducing two new seasonal experiences designed to make exploring the city during the holidays easier and more memorable: the Distillery Winter Village Shuttle and the Toronto Winter Lights & Scavenger Hunt Bus Tour. 

The Distillery Winter Village Shuttle connects three downtown pickup locations – 55 York Street, the Chelsea Hotel and the shared Hilton/Sheraton pickup – with one of Toronto’s best-known festive destinations. Guests can choose one-way or return transportation and explore the Village at their own pace. Winter Village admission is separate when required. 

Travellers with an eligible Toronto City Tour ticket can also arrange a free same-day Winter Village shuttle, with seats confirmed in advance. The service gives visitors a convenient way to combine daytime sightseeing with an evening of seasonal shopping, lights and holiday atmosphere. 

The Toronto Winter Lights & Scavenger Hunt Bus Tour turns a festive outing into an interactive adventure. In a playful story featuring Jack Frost and a missing Winter Star, guests follow clues, solve puzzles and discover mystery checkpoints around the city. The 60-90 minute experience combines a heated bus, a live host and short outdoor portions. 

The scavenger hunt welcomes families, friends, couples and solo travellers, with children participating alongside an adult. Main departures are offered at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. from 55 York Street on available operating dates, with selected hotel pickup options. Guests should bring warm layers and one charged smartphone with mobile data per team; no app download is required. 

Both experiences are available to book online. Operating dates, pickup instructions, ticket options and current availability are shown on the individual product pages. The shuttle and scavenger hunt are separate experiences and require the appropriate reservations. 

About Gray Line Toronto

Gray Line Toronto offers guided Toronto sightseeing, Niagara Falls day trips and seasonal experiences, helping visitors discover the city and the surrounding region.

MEDIA CONTACT 

Crystal
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EXPERIENCE DETAILS & RESERVATIONS 

Distillery Winter Village Shuttle 

https://graylinetoronto.com/christmas-shuttle 

Toronto Winter Lights & Scavenger Hunt Bus Tour 

https://graylinetoronto.com/winter-lights-scavenger-hunt 

For media enquiries, interviews and questions about the experiences, contact Crystal using the details above. Please consult the product pages for current dates, prices and availability.