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Can ESG Data Improve Investment and Lending Decisions? Digital Disclosures as a Vehicle for Insight

June 16, 2026

After a fantastic presentation at XBRL Europe’s Digital Reporting in Europe event, we were lucky enough to catch up with Dr Jane Thostrup Jagd, Director of Net Zero Finance, We Mean Business Coalition, for this interview. What does the future look like for how we use ESG data, and how does that differ from today? […]

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Driving to the Moon in an EV. Please don't do that!

Don’t Drive to the Moon

April 23, 2026

Take a Volkswagen ID.4. Lovely car. Very sustainable. Now drive it to the moon and back. Nineteen times. You will need snacks. And… oxygen. You’ll also need roughly 2.7 million kWh of electricity, which, by a coincidence that borders on the poetic, is about how much AI energy just two jurisdictions will waste every reporting […]

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When AI Doesn’t Know What It Doesn’t Know: A Lesson in Financial Domain Knowledge

April 23, 2026

This guest opinion piece is the fourth in a series from Björn Fastabend, bringing us a regulator’s perspective alongside a wealth of experience in digital reporting. Björn is head of the XBRL collection and processing unit at BaFin, Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, where he supervises all related activities and leads the implementation of strategic […]

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Comparison Across Years | Using LLMs to Analyse Narrative Disclosures

March 5, 2026

This is the fourth entry in the blog series “Using LLMs to Analyse Narrative Disclosures.” So far, we’ve seen how structured XBRL tagged data combined with LLMs enables quick and meaningful analysis — from identifying disclosure patterns and anomalies to exploring sentiment and tone in management narratives. In this part, we’ll take the analysis a […]

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OIM Taxonomy in Practice: Exploring the Emerging Possibilities

March 3, 2026

XBRL International is working a strategic modernisation of the XBRL standard, and that’s what OIM Taxonomy is all about. In this two-parter, we set out where we are, what we’re aiming for, and where – with your help – we’re going next. Both posts are based on internal presentations by Paul Warren, XBRL International’s Technical […]

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Introducing OIM Taxonomy: An Easier, Faster, More Powerful XBRL Experience

March 3, 2026

XBRL International is working a strategic modernisation of the XBRL standard, and that’s what OIM Taxonomy is all about. In this two-parter, we set out where we are, what we’re aiming for, and where – with your help – we’re going next. This post focuses on high-level goals, and the next will dive into new […]

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Sentiment Analysis | Using LLMs to Analyse Narrative Disclosures

February 5, 2026

This is the third entry in the blog series “Using LLMs to Analyse Narrative Disclosures.”  In the previous analysis, we explored how liquidity risk disclosures revealed clear patterns and outliers, offering valuable signals through structured XBRL tagging and LLM-powered summarisation. In this part, we shift focus to sentiment analysis — examining how management frames its […]

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Guaranteeing trust with XBRL digital signatures

February 5, 2026

This guest blog is by Tom Wacha, Director of XBRL Product Management at Workiva and a volunteer on the Arelle open source XBRL platform. He is also a member of XBRL International’s Best Practices Board. Today, business reporting has transitioned from paper documents to digital data. While this shift has increased transparency and efficiency, it […]

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Topic Analysis and Anomaly Detection | Using LLMs to Analyse Narrative Disclosures

January 29, 2026

This is the second entry in the series “Using LLMs to Analyse Narrative Disclosures.” In the previous piece, we saw how a simple prompt was sufficient to uncover the pattern of audit firms across 900 reports. Because the exact fact — the audit firm code (EDRPOU) — was explicitly tagged, it became easy and reliable to […]

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What is XBRL?

January 16, 2026

XBRL elevates business reporting from chore to value-add. It’s the vital digital infrastructure that unlocks investor-grade insight, boosts AI performance and enables increasingly interconnected global business. Find out what it’s all about in our new video.

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