EQS Group: Digitising, Regularising, and Globalising Compliance Solutions

Every organisation needs proficiency and resources to remain compliant with rules and regulations, and the absence of this could impede their operations and even tarnish their credibility. These compliance become substantially challenging when an organisation expands. EQS Group (ETR: EQS), a digital solution provider for compliance, helps its clients become more straightforward and competitive.

EQS Group, founded in 2000, fosters radical transparency and compliance in the corporate sector by digitising corporations. Headquartered in Munich, it offers solutions to municipalities and businesses to comply with the EU's GDPR. It provides digital solutions to minimise risk by complying with local regulations, reach stakeholders globally, and save time and money by managing the workflow digitally and efficiently. It is the leading international provider of Corporate Compliance and Investor Relations Regulatory technology (RegTech). Its cloud-based software called EQS IR COCKPIT is an online hub for all its products, the world's first platform that amalgamates investor data, contact management, and news distribution in one single tool. It enables its users to cover all their publications, disclosure, and documentation while also enabling active and secure communication with investors and stakeholders. By working actively with professionals in the financial market, EQS Group is always in proximity to the market's latest trends.

EQS Group offers Investor Relations Manager, employing which users can digitise their investor relations and use the innovative IR products in daily operations. One can manage investor, analyst, and journalist contact efficiently, create individual lists for mailing and corporate communication and upload contact lists in excel format, all in compliance with GDPR. The contact manager is seamlessly integrated into the EQS IR COCKPIT.

The tool also enables audio and video webcasts which allow proactive and transparent communication with stakeholders and investors. The Audio webcasts would enable users to host Q&A sessions, live or on-demand sessions, while the video webcasts enable them to create engaging content for the investor's community. These features allow users to draw the key investors' attention in the critical segments of the meetings and clarify their queries.

EQS IR tools provide interactive content for IR websites. Users can Share Price Charts, and regulatory news feeds and makes an interactive comparison of key financial figures with EQS Analyzer. It also offers a Share Price Teaser to provide mini-charting tools focusing on the most crucial information with a simplified interface. Users can also select the period over which they want to review the share prices. Index and peer group data can be integrated into the chart for comparison, which can be downloaded as an Excel sheet. All these tools can be customised according to the user for maximum efficiency.

EQS Compliance COCKPIT offers all compliance solutions in an integrated platform, either individually or as a combined module. EQS Integrity Line is a whistle-blowing software with multiple intuitive reporting channels, offering 2-way confidential communication and integrated case management. This feature-rich tool is user-friendly and doesn't require training. Managers can investigate collaboratively while protecting reports from granular permissions. EQS Policy Manager enables managers to centrally manage policies with a clear audit trail, automatically distribute data and obtain signatures digitally. The tools would allow employees to know which policy applies to them and where to find them. EQS Insider Manager efficiently fulfils all MAR requirements by maintaining a digital insider list per EU Market Abuse Regulations. It enables insiders to submit personal data securely via online forms.

EQS Group fully complies with the client's needs. It is the market leader for digital investor relations in the German-speaking market (DACH). Today, the EQS group has more than 350 employees who make sure the clients get the best-in-class solutions. All DAX30 companies use their EQS COCKPIT. To serve the European market, it has subsidiaries in London, Paris, and Zurich and representatives in Italy, Spain, the Benelux Union, and Scandinavia.

EQS Group enables thousands of companies worldwide to fulfil complex national and international disclosure obligations by minimising the risk involved in compliance and communicating transparently with investors. Being one of the leaders of the market, it will be leading the industry towards more advanced technological developments.