Autorite des Marches Financiers, French Financial Markets Regulator, Approves Business Wire to Operate as a Regulatory Disclosure Service in France.PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. -- Business Wire has been officially recognized by the Autorite des Marches Financiers [AMF AMF ACE (Allied Command, Europe) Mobile Force AMF Autorité des Marchés Financiers (French) AMF Action Message Format AMF Arab Monetary Fund AMF Asian Monetary Fund AMF Autocrine Motility Factor ], the French financial markets regulator, as an approved regulatory disclosure service in France, Michael Becker, vice president, global disclosure and financial reporting services, announced today. The AMF today published its list of sanctioned information providers, in advance of the January 20 launch of the European Union's Transparency Obligations Directive [TOD]. Business Wire is the only global commercial newswire on the AMF list; Business Wire maintains dedicated disclosure networks in all major European financial markets, including France, the United Kingdom and Germany. "Business Wire's decision to operate its own disclosure networks throughout the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community , coupled with its comprehensive worldwide media and investor relations networks, means that we are uniquely positioned to offer seamless distribution to all target audiences," said Becker. "Tremendous fragmentation exists among competitive services in the 27 EU Member States. Business Wire has clearly differentiated itself in the EU marketplace by providing an efficient one-stop solution for European companies seeking to reach global financial and consumer markets." In addition to reaching designated disclosure media, Business Wire's "Best Practices" network includes pan-European media distribution via the networks of Agence France-Presse and The Associated Press, full-text carriage by the leading financial information providers, e.g. Bloomberg and Reuters, and online postings to leading portals, including lefigaro.fr, lycos.fr and yahoo.fr. Business Wire's patented "NX" news delivery platform provides for the multilingual transmission of market-moving information to multiple markets. Business Wire also provides multilingual distribution via a range of new media applications, including RSS feeds, its own proprietary PressPass system, and local-language postings to the largest network of pan-European online sites in the industry. As part of the AMF approval process, Business Wire successfully completed a technical and operational audit by one of the world's leading independent accounting firms. Business Wire undergoes a similar annual audit in the United Kingdom, to comply with the rigid requirements of Financial Services Authority The Financial Services Authority ("FSA") is an independent non-departmental public body and quasi-judicial body that regulates the financial services industry in the United Kingdom. Its main office is based in Canary Wharf, London, with another office in Edinburgh. [FSA FSA Financial Services Authority FSA Food Standards Agency (UK) FSA Farm Service Agency (USDA) FSA Financial Services Agency (Japan) ], the UK markets regulator. About Business Wire Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is utilized by thousands of member companies and organizations to transmit their full-text news releases, regulatory filings, photos and other multimedia content to journalists, news media, trade publications, institutional and individual investors, financial information services, regulatory authorities, Internet portals, information web sites, business-to-business decision-makers and consumers worldwide. With a news distribution network spanning 150 countries and 45 languages, Business Wire's multi-channel delivery network, has access to some 60 international and national news agency networks throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The Business Wire news network is powered by its patented NX high-speed data platform and supports XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , XHTML (EXtensible HTML) A markup language for Web pages from the W3C. XHTML combines HTML and XML into a single format (HTML 4.0 and XML 1.0). Like XML, XHTML can be extended with proprietary tags. Also like XML, XHTML must be coded more rigorously than HTML. and XBRL (EXtensible Business Reporting Language) A specification for publishing financial information in the XML format. It is designed to provide a standard set of XML tags for exchanging accounting information and financial statements between companies and analysts. code to deliver the most sophisticated news file to enhance news release interactivity, customization and search engine optimization Designing a Web site so that search engines easily find the pages and index them. The goal is to have your page be in the top 10 results of a search. Optimization includes the choice of words used in the text paragraphs and the placement of those words on the page, both visible and hidden . Business Wire has 30 bureaus in cities including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Paris, Frankfurt, London, Brussels, Tokyo and Sydney with reciprocal offices throughout the world. Business Wire was founded in 1961 by Chairman Lorry I. Lokey, veteran journalist and public relations executive. Cathy Baron Tamraz is president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . |
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