Yesterday Brussels fired the starting gun on a new phase of capital-markets integration across Europe. The Commission’s “market integration and supervision” package is explicitly aimed at enlarging Europe’s capital markets that are presently too small and fragmented to finance significant economic transitions at scale or to compete with the depth and liquidity of larger markets.
Following on almost a year since it came into force in January 2025, this month the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) supervision framework reached a new milestone.
The European Parliament has voted to significantly narrow the scope of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
Over the summer, the Open Data Institute (ODI) released a new framework outlining what makes data truly AI-ready. It boils down to three pillars: the quality of the data itself, rich metadata, and robust infrastructure. And the good news: XBRL already has most of these requirements embedded in its capabilities and ecosystem practices.