NYSE Regulation, Inc., a not-for-profit subsidiary of NYSE-Euronext, is entrusted with strengthening market integrity and the protection of investors. One way this is accomplished is through the development, implementation and enforcement of New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Listed Company Financial Standards. The Financial Compliance department is the NYSE's primary accounting, auditing and reporting liaison with the listed company community and it oversees these financial listing standards. The group actively monitors a company's compliance through a mixture of periodic reporting, information systems and active professional due diligence. The official NYSE listing standards can be accessed by the public in the NYSE Listed Company Manual published on the NYSE website (www.nyse.com/regulation). NYSE listed companies are required to report compliance findings to the public by issuing a company press release and a corresponding Form 8K filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The NYSE posts these compliance findings on its website and transmits an identifier with its stock symbol information feed that signals to the public when there is a compliance issue. NYSE Regulation's Financial Compliance group also plays a public policy role in assessing and evaluating current accounting and regulatory changes, then communicating those assessments both internally and externally. Listing standards play an important role in ensuring that only qualified companies are admitted to trading on the NYSE and that only qualified companies remain eligible for trading on a daily basis. The NYSE Listing Standards are transparent and oversight of these standards by the NYSE Regulation Financial Compliance group is carried out in accordance with the highest levels of professionalism and integrity.