Started in February 2010, IBN is a joint venture between AAIB Insurance Brokers and Upper Quartile. Their merged newsletter now reaches 12,500 subscribers free each Thursday in 61 countries. The Web site is read in 180 countries and has 130,000 visits pm and 250,000 pageviews pm. The reader profile includes senior corporate executives, tecnical management, finance, legal, political, diplomatic, education, training and welfare. Advertisers have the choice of running ads through the site or on single pages.Most news is sourced locally from offices in Amman,Erbil,Baghdad and Basra. IBN is published from the UK. Full details from Antony Wakeham, Publisher.