Euronext asks listed companies to phone after Outlook outage

BRUSSELS, Nov 13 (Reuters) - European stock market operator Euronext advised listed companies on Friday morning to use the telephone to communicate corporate information after an outage in Microsoft's Outlook email service.

• "Euronext Corporate Actions and Listing teams are currently experiencing an email communication disruption and are unable to receive emails," the company, which runs exchanges in Paris, Brussels, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Oslo, Athens and Milan, said in a corporate filing

• "For urgent matters relating to suspensions, corporate actions management, Oslo major shareholding notifications, MyEuronext or Newspoint, issuers and their agents are advised to contact the relevant Exchange Operator by telephone," it added

• The company advised MyEuronext users to call through mobile phones and use two-factor authentication

• "We have ensured that the team has sufficient capacity to manage the situation and handle the additional workload," a spokesperson said

• "We are also applying appropriate safeguards to securely authenticate and verify identity of issuers contacting Euronext by telephone, while ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of all related communications," she said

• Disruption to Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams and Copilot has hit millions of customers worldwide

(Reporting by Inti LandauroEditing by Mark Potter, William Maclean)