sending such releases is a multi-step process
Sending a regulatory release isn’t just a click — it’s the final moment in a multi-step process, often involving many stakeholders, with compliance, formatting and timing all needing to align.
In that final second before pressing send, one question often lingers: Are we sure everything is right?
Why regulatory news matters
Regulatory news is about more than just ticking compliance boxes. It’s a cornerstone for market transparency, investor trust, and corporate accountability. Financial results, insider information, major shareholding disclosures, voting outcomes, etc., are not just legal obligations — they’re also a strategic tool to shape investor perceptions. What you communicate, how, and where it is displayed matter.
That’s why company secretaries and often IR departments and financial PR firms are involved in the process. And while collaboration is essential, it also makes the process more complex. Sensitive timelines. Legal scrutiny. Strategic positioning.
It’s in the last stretch where things often get most stressful, when it’s time to actually publish the release, questions arise:
- Have we selected the right regulatory tags?
- Is the formatting correct across all channels?
- Is the report attached?
- Is the release well-written in tone and grammar?
- Are we using the correct regulatory disclaimers?
Understanding your options
This is where the primary information provider (PIP) behind your distribution matters more than most realise. A PIP is a firm that is approved by the FCA to be used by the issuers whenever they need to disclose regulated information. There are currently six PIPs active in the UK.
Many UK-listed companies default to RNS for distribution. However, listed companies are free to choose any of the FCA-approved PIPs to use as their single source for distributing regulatory news.
That choice matters, because each PIP has a different approach to user experience, customer support, features in their platform, distribution lists and pricing. Your choice of PIP can reduce the risks of mistakes, save time and improve the reach of your news.
How Modular Finance makes it easier
One of those six approved PIPs is us, Modular Finance, with our regulatory news platform MFN used by more than 500 listed companies in the Nordics. We’ve spent years building and improving MFN to solve the exact problems that make release distribution harder than it needs to be.
With built-in automated connections to regulatory counterparties and your website, features to automate compliance, and great attention to formatting in the distribution — you can press send confidently. Your release will look stellar in all channels and meet regulatory requirements.
Distributing regulatory news is stressful as it is, don’t let the PIP you use add tension to that situation; let it boost your confidence instead.
Matt Sayer is general manager, UK at Modular Finance
