The newswire platform behind thousands of public-company disclosures.
AccessNewswire (Issuer Direct) lets a public company write a release once, distribute it across global media, file it with regulators, host it on a branded IR newsroom, and measure the impact — all on one platform we build and run on Kubernetes.
The challenge
Public companies and IR teams juggle a fragmented disclosure stack — one vendor to write and wire a release, another to file with the SEC, a third to host an investor-relations page, and spreadsheets to prove any of it worked. The mandate was to collapse that into a single platform that authors, distributes, discloses, hosts, and measures — without dropping the reliability a regulated financial workflow demands.
What we built
We build and ship across a fleet of microservices that cover the entire disclosure lifecycle:
- Distribution. A release is authored once and fanned across 50+ geographic circuits and tier-1 outlets — AP, Reuters, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, Morningstar, Benzinga — plus Apple News, FTP/SFTP delivery, and StockTwits/X amplification. Scheduled jobs then scrape third-party coverage to report exactly where it was picked up.
- Regulatory disclosure. Direct filing to US SEC/EDGAR and Canadian SEDAR with document-type selection, scheduling and attachments, plus a dedicated LegalWire workflow for legal disclosures.
- Hosted IR newsrooms. Client-managed, branded newsroom websites on custom domains — press-release archives, a brand-asset manager, embeddable stock/news/filings widgets, and double-opt-in email-alert subscriptions.
- Shareholder & governance tooling. Events, webcasts and AGM management, a whistleblower hotline, and social monitoring across Twitter, Reddit, Bluesky and YouTube.
- Market data & charting. Interactive Highcharts HighStock charts and QuoteMedia-driven quotes, fundamentals and filings, feeding embeddable widgets and email stock alerts that pass through an IR approval queue.
- Commerce & platform. Orders, subscriptions and metered credits, card billing through Authorize.Net with multi-currency (USD/CAD), and NetSuite ERP sync for invoicing and revenue recognition.
Under the hood
A fleet of 10+ ASP.NET Core microservices with RabbitMQ eventing, Hangfire scheduled jobs and full OpenTelemetry observability, that automatically publishes to Kubernetes (Istio service mesh, Helm) — so the platform can scale out on demand to absorb high-volume traffic. We've maintained this application for close to 20 years, upgrading it from a classic Web Forms application to a modern .NET Core platform and continuing to maintain it ever since — because we always support the applications we build.
Outcome
One integrated stack now spans the entire disclosure lifecycle — from press release to hosted newsroom to market data to billing and revenue recognition — built and operated end to end by the same team.
At a glance
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