Press Releases

Press releases are formal company announcements — product launches, partnerships, executive appointments, funding rounds, and regulatory filings. They are published under /press-releases/[slug], carry NewsArticle structured data for news aggregators and Google News, and are indexed separately from editorial articles.

The schema mirrors the Articles collection. The key difference is positioning: a press release is written in the third person, follows inverted-pyramid structure, and cites the company as the authoritative source.

Frontmatter Fields

Template

---
title: '[Company Name] [Announces / Launches / Appoints] [Subject]'
description: 'One-sentence lede: who did what, where, and when.'
publishedAt: 2026-01-01
authors:
  - contact-person-slug
tags:
  - Product Launch
industries:
  - Industry Name
locale: en
featured: false
draft: true
---

**[City], [Date]** — [Company Name], [brief company descriptor], today announced [subject of announcement]. [One additional sentence expanding the lede.]

## [Context / Background Heading]

[Two to three paragraphs providing context. Why does this announcement matter? What problem does it solve? What market condition prompted it?]

## [Details Heading]

[Specifics of the announcement: pricing, availability, technical specifications, partnership scope, or appointment details.]

## Quote

> "[Quote from senior executive endorsing the announcement and its significance.]"
>
> — [Full Name], [Title], [Company Name]

## [Secondary Quote or Partner Quote — optional]

> "[Quote from partner, customer, or industry voice validating the announcement.]"
>
> — [Full Name], [Title], [Organisation]

## About [Company Name]

[Standard boilerplate: two to three sentences describing the company, its mission, size, and location. This section is identical across all releases from this company.]

## Contact

[Contact Name]  
[Title]  
[Email]  
[Phone — optional]

Complete Sample

---
title: 'Meridian Analytics Launches AI-Powered Regulatory Intelligence Platform for European Banks'
description: 'Meridian Analytics has launched RegularIQ, a real-time regulatory monitoring platform that reduces compliance review time by 60% for mid-market European banks.'
publishedAt: 2026-05-14
authors:
  - clara-hofmann
tags:
  - Product Launch
  - RegTech
  - Artificial Intelligence
industries:
  - Financial Services
  - Banking
locale: en
featured: false
draft: false
---

**Amsterdam, 14 May 2026** — Meridian Analytics, a regulatory technology company serving European financial institutions, today launched RegularIQ, an AI-powered compliance intelligence platform that monitors 340 regulatory sources across 27 EU member states and surfaces material changes within 90 minutes of publication.

## The Regulatory Burden on Mid-Market Banks

European mid-market banks — those with assets between €5 billion and €50 billion — spend an average of 14% of operating costs on compliance, according to the European Banking Authority's 2025 supervision report. Unlike large institutions, they lack the internal teams to monitor regulatory developments in real time. A change to EBA guidelines or a new BaFin circular can sit undetected for days, creating material risk exposure.

RegularIQ addresses this gap by continuously monitoring official regulatory sources, mapping changes to the bank's specific product portfolio, and generating plain-language impact summaries with draft compliance checklists for the relevant teams.

## Platform Capabilities

RegularIQ covers regulatory publications from the European Central Bank, EBA, ESMA, national competent authorities in all 27 EU member states, and the Financial Stability Board. Key capabilities include:

- **Real-time alerts**: New regulatory publications are processed and categorised within 90 minutes.
- **Portfolio mapping**: Changes are automatically cross-referenced against the bank's registered product set to identify applicable obligations.
- **Impact summaries**: Plain-language summaries with cited source text, effective dates, and draft compliance checklists.
- **Audit trail**: Full version history of regulatory changes with timestamps for supervisory evidence.

Pricing starts at €4,800 per month for institutions with up to €20 billion in assets, with volume tiers for larger portfolios.

## Quote

> "Mid-market banks have been operating with a structural disadvantage in regulatory intelligence. They face the same regulatory complexity as large banks but with a fraction of the compliance headcount. RegularIQ changes that equation — our clients are spending less time reading PDFs and more time making decisions."
>
> — Dr. Lars Vandenberghe, Chief Executive Officer, Meridian Analytics

## Customer Perspective

> "We piloted RegularIQ during the EBA's final guidance on DORA implementation and it surfaced three obligations our team had not yet flagged. The time we saved in that single cycle paid for the annual subscription."
>
> — Head of Compliance (anonymous), Tier-2 Belgian Bank

## About Meridian Analytics

Meridian Analytics is a regulatory technology company founded in Amsterdam in 2021. The company serves 38 financial institutions across 11 European countries and employs 74 people. Its platform processes over 2,000 regulatory documents per month in English, German, French, and Dutch.

## Contact

Clara Hofmann  
Head of Communications, Meridian Analytics  
press@meridiananalytics.eu