• A community consisting of contributors and users worldwide, being able to interact with each other through Codex-Banking.
• An interactive database containing banking news.
• A refined and highly competitive research tool for international banking documents.

The target public consists of the following people:

• Chartered accountant and auditors
• Banking lawyers
• Other members of the banking professions
• "Compagnie Fiduciaire"
• Banks, Insurances, Consultancy companies
• All companies
• Public authorities, i.e.: Governments, Parliaments, and local governments
• Finance, management and economy students

Starting on 1st February 2002, an e-mail-based news service (Banking News Alert) will be made available to users. This service will be tailored to their specific requests regarding the category of information they want to have the most direct access to.

Affiliations with providers of additional services will be established.

Translations of banking documents will be sold to users at their request. The "e-commercial" dimension of Codex-Banking will furthermore include the sale of CD-ROM compilations of articles and other materials as far as copyright law allows, etc.

Specialized Yellow Pages: this service allows contributors and users of Codex-Banking to enhance their visibility on the site through a detailed presentation in this directory.

Partnerships in the field of career opportunities, employment, and events in the banking field will be thought.

Intranet and extranet applications mirroring the Codex-Banking.com knowledge management system and possibly parts of its content shall be developed and sold.

Web sites building package.

Every banking mind is welcome to publish any document or article. Those wishing to publish on the site only need to register, and then send in their contribution(s). After a back office verification of author and content - designed to keep the site free of Spam - the document(s) will become available online.

On the Codex-Banking main page as well as on the respective "national" pages of Codex-Banking - reflecting the language and banking reference system of the user - partnerships with interested entities will be established, trading the use of Codex-Banking facilities with the payment of a sponsorship sum. These partnerships are defined as commercial, in that the association of relevant business entities with Codex-Banking is aimed at yielding commercial benefits for both parties concerned.

Contact us if you believe that your company could be interested in a partnership with us, and so establish a common marketing campaign, respectively advertise on our web site.

The team behind Codex-Banking.com:

- Frank Engel, a lawyer by training, has been working as a political adviser to former Commission President Jacques Santer and one of the current political majority's parliamentary groups. One year ago, he has also successfully launched Codex - the sole legal monthly on the Luxembourgish market - together with Marc Rauchs.

- Marc Rauchs is an independent business consultant with an academic background in management and finance. He has run his own business since leaving university four years ago. He was one of the initiators of Codex magazine of which he is still the editor.