International financing news and deals data services IFR and PFI launch on Glide Publishing Platform

by Glide Press Office

Published: 15:49, 23 June 2025

LONDON, UK - Glide Publishing Platform is delighted to announce that leading capital markets publications International Financing Review (“IFR”) and Project Finance International (“PFI”) have relaunched on Glide Publishing Platform.

The two titles, and the associated global loans service, LPC, and Japanese capital markets news and data service, DealWatch, supply vital business data and insight to investment banking and capital markets participants around the world. They are all powered by Glide CMS, the headless CMS for publishers, and the Glide Nexa Audience Interaction Platform. 

The project was delivered by Glide’s partner The Applab and Glide Professional Services (GPS) working closely with customer personnel and partners in the UK and Asia.

Glide is powering both digital and print workflows for the weekly magazines, as well as subscription management and personalization for the subscribers.

“IFR and PFI are two of the most trusted brands in global finance, so we are enormously proud to have been selected for both Glide CMS, to power digital and print content management, and Glide Nexa, our Audience Interaction Platform, to power subscriptions and personalisation," said Denis Haman, CEO, Glide Publishing Platform. 

“IFR and PFI are relied upon by professionals globally in extremely fluid and information-sensitive markets where accuracy and speed are mission critical. They blend vital human insight with complex live and historical structured market data on behalf of a demanding audience which relies on these brands in a super competitive field," Haman continued. “We are hugely appreciative of the vote of confidence from the team at IFR and all their hard work and input to make the launches a success.”

“I am extremely proud of the work that our partner The Applab has done together with Glide Professional Services to smoothly deliver the simultaneous launch of both IFR and PFI.”

“In Glide, IFR, and its sister publications LPC, PFI and DealWatch, have found a formidable partner who profoundly understands the complexity and value of delivering data and news to our users to make critical decisions that affect capital markets globally," said Mahmoud Khliefat, Head of Capital Markets Data & Analytics at LSEG.

“As a 50-year-old financial services publication, the resilience, security, and agility that Glide introduces are key for us. These were especially pronounced throughout the migration process which the Glide team made smoother and less stressful with their collaborative ethos and cheerful teamwork.”

For further information, please contact pr@gpp.io, or Jeana Garms (jeana.garms@gpp.io).

About IFR and PFI

IFR is the world's leading provider of global capital markets intelligence, reaching subscribers worldwide in both digital and print form with deals data and insights from expert global editorial teams. IFR subscribers have access to a wide range of exclusive content, including news, deals data, , analyses, and an archive of 25 years of information.

PFI is the leading source of global project finance intelligence and similarly delivered in both digital and print form to subscribers. Project finance professionals aroudn the globe rely on itfor exclusive insights, deal analyses, identification of opportunities, and competitor insight.  

Both titles are part of the London Stock Exchange Group, a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider that operates connected businesses to serve customers across the entire financial markets value chain. It is headquartered in London and has a major presence throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and emerging markets.

About Glide Publishing Platform

Glide Publishing Platform is a specialist technology and services provider for content and audience projects in verticals including media, entertainment, and sport. 

As an AWS Technology Partner, Glide products are offered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) and built on the principles of MACH architecture, with a global network of exceptional service and technology partners.

Glide CMS is a low-code cloud-native API-driven headless CMS for large editorial teams and audience projects, including media & entertainment.

It provides enterprise scalability, robustness, and availability, with unrivalled flexibility for content and product management. Comprehensive features include newsroom and content tools such as Live Reporting, Digital Asset Management, automated SEO, and safe AI.

Glide Nexa is a CDP and Audience Interaction Platform for businesses with large audiences such as sports and media & broadcasting, with demands for audience authentication, entitlements, and preferences management in one system, or in parallel with others.

Nexa allows better use of First Party Data to subscription and audience teams to better craft engagement strategies and to model users and groups. 

Glide CMS and Glide Nexa are separate products which can operate independently or together.

Glide Go is a pre-configured implementation of GPP technologies and expertise for fast-moving teams of all sizes to achieve enterprise-quality product launches in record time at hugely reduced cost.

The Applab is a Glide partner. It is a digital product consultancy specialising in content and subscription products and provides strategic consultancy, product management, product design, & product engineering services to leading media and entertainment companies.

Glide Professional Services offer specialist technical implementation, migrations, support, and development services for content projects and products, from personnel based in the UK, Europe, USA, and Asia.

GPS has sector-leading expertise in workflow management, content management, audience engagement products, cloud-based architecture, and AI implementation.

Glide CMS is also available via the AWS Marketplace.