EQS : certified as Primary Information Provider in France / Expansion of extensive media distribution network

EQS Group certified as Primary Information Provider in France / Expansion of extensive media distribution network

EQS Group has been officially certified as a Primary Information Provider (PIP) by the French Financial Markets Authority AMF and is now growing its service offering in France. Peter Van Heeke, Managing Director of EQS Group SAS, explains: "The PIP certification is a crucial step to further strengthen our market leadership in Europe. As PIP, we can now serve our French clients with EQS Group's one-stop-shop-approach: being a single provider for all digital investor relations and compliance solutions."

The EQS COCKPIT, a cloud-based workflow platform, is specifically tailored to the French market, offering a French interface and access to the full EQS Financial Newswire. With an extensive distribution network in France, EQS guarantees the best possible visibility of its clients' distributed news. EQS disseminates news to Agence France-Presse, AMF, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Yahoo! Finance France and Euronext, to name a few.

Providing one of the world's most important financial newswires, EQS Group also offers a variety of global news circuits that allow clients to precisely target their news to specifically audiences. Matthias Erler, Director Media Network & Partnerships, has been tireless in expanding EQS's Financial Newswire: "Strong and long-term global partnerships enable us to offer a powerful and robust media and investor distribution network in order to ensure global visibility for our clients, enabling them to reach and engage with their target audiences."

As a sponsor of the IR Magazine Global Forum taking place in Paris October 3-4, 2017, EQS Group will be on-site to discuss newest IR trends and best practices as well as present EQS's full-service approach, which now includes news distribution as a certified Primary Information Provider in France.

More information: http://france.eqs.com

Contact:

Peter Van Heeke
Managing Director France & Benelux
+33 (0)1 56 03 67 63
peter.van.heeke@eqs.com

About EQS Group:

EQS Group is a leading international technology provider for Digital Investor Relations, Corporate Communications and Compliance. More than 8,000 companies worldwide trust EQS's products and services to securely, efficiently, and simultaneously fulfil complex national and international disclosure and compliance requirements, and to reach the global investment community.

The EQS COCKPIT, a cloud-based IR workflow platform, digitally maps the work processes of IR Officers, communicates with the company's website, and distributes company releases via one of the most important financial newswires. With additional products such as websites, IR tools, digital reports, and webcasting solutions, EQS Group is a digital single source provider.

EQS Group was founded in Munich, Germany in 2000 and has developed from a start-up to an international group with offices in the world's key financial markets. The group employs more than 350 professionals globally.