How We Report

Last updated: September 3, 2026

This page describes the method behind a Global Securities News article: where the facts come from, what a draft has to survive before it publishes, and what the labels on the page mean. It sits alongside our Editorial Standards, which set the rules. Articles are researched and drafted with AI-assisted tools and reviewed, edited and signed by the Chief Editor before publication.

What counts as a source

GSN reports from primary documents. A primary document is the record itself, published by the party that made it, and it is the only category of source our factual claims are built on:

• registration statements, prospectuses and offering documents;
• periodic and current reports filed with a securities regulator;
• exchange notices, listing and delisting decisions, and market operator disclosures;
• regulatory and supervisory decisions, enforcement actions and rule texts;
• central bank and finance ministry statements and data releases;
• company press releases, results announcements and investor presentations issued by the company itself;
• transcripts and official statements attributable on the record to a named person.

Every article is built on at least three such documents, and each is listed by title, publisher and link in the Sources block at the foot of the article. That block is not a reading list. It is the set of documents the article was written from, and every material claim in the piece traces to one of them.

Aggregators and forums are never cited. Content farms, news aggregators, message boards, social posts, stock promotion sites and comment threads do not appear in our Sources and are not the basis of any claim. They can point us at a subject worth reading the filings on, but a discovery signal is not a source, and we do not republish one.

Trade press is limited. An established trade or business publication may be cited at most once per article, and only for a fact that the primary documents do not carry, such as an on-the-record comment made to that outlet. It is attributed by name in the text. It never substitutes for a filing that exists, and it is never the support for a headline figure.

The verification gates

A draft passes through several checks before it becomes a page, in plain terms:

1. The documents are fetched first. Sources are retrieved and read before drafting. An article is written from documents in hand, not from recollection of what a filing usually says.
2. Every figure and quotation is traced. Before publication, each number, date, ticker and quoted phrase in the draft is matched mechanically against the fetched source text. A figure that cannot be located in a source document does not stay in the article.
3. A second reviewer re-reads the piece. The whole article is read again against the same documents, checking that the claims are what the documents actually support and that nothing has drifted in the retelling.
4. Mechanical checks. The draft is also checked for duplication of existing coverage, for links that resolve, and for image licence compliance.
5. Editor review, where it applies. Contributing Editors, who are named independent professionals covering a region, read articles in their region in full and check the material claims against the listed sources. When that has happened, the article carries a reviewer credit naming the editor. When it has not, the article carries no credit, and most of our archive does not. We show which articles an editor has read rather than implying it of all of them.

What “Analysis” means

Reporting and interpretation are kept visibly apart. Where an article goes beyond what a document states, into what a filing may signal, how a change compares with a prior one, or what a reader might watch next, that material sits under a heading titled Analysis.

Analysis means informed interpretation of the documents cited in the same article. It does not mean a forecast, a price target, a recommendation, or a claim of non-public knowledge, and it is not investment advice. Everything outside the Analysis heading is reporting: a statement that a source document supports directly. If a sentence in the reporting section cannot be checked against a listed source, it is a defect, and we want to hear about it.

Language

Articles are written and published in English, and the English text is the canonical version. The site around them, meaning navigation, labels and interface text, is available in eight languages, and some headlines and summaries outside English are machine-translated. A translation is a convenience. Where it differs from the written article, the written article governs.

Photographs

Article photographs come from Wikimedia Commons and other licensed sources, are used under their respective licences, and are credited. They are illustrative: a caption describes what the image shows, and an image is never presented as a depiction of the company, the event or the people the article is about unless it genuinely is. Photographs are not AI-generated. If we ever publish an AI-generated or AI-manipulated image, it will be labelled where it appears.

The September 2026 reissue

In September 2026, GSN reissued its existing archive of 576 articles against the standard described on this page. In that work, each article was rebuilt on at least three fetched primary documents listed under Sources; every figure and quotation was traced mechanically to a fetched source before republication; a second reviewer re-read each article against those documents; interpretive material was moved under a labelled Analysis heading; and each reissued article was given a visible Updated date recording when the work was done. Articles published since then are produced to the same standard from the outset.

What to do with a figure

Check it against the filing. Every number that matters in a GSN article is linked to the document it came from, and that document is the authority, not our summary of it. Filings are also amended, restated and superseded, sometimes within days. An article reflects the record as of its date, so for anything you intend to act on, open the source and confirm it is still the current one.

Requesting a correction

Email [email protected] or [email protected], or use our Contact page, with a link to the article, the specific claim, figure or quotation you believe is wrong, and any supporting source. Every request is reviewed on its merits. Not all of them lead to a change, but a substantive correction is stamped with a visible Updated date and, where it affects a reader’s understanding, carries a note explaining what changed. The full corrections process is in our Editorial Standards.