A couple of weeks back the New York Society of Security Analysts’ (NYSSA) Financial Reporting and Analysis Group hosted a workshop on using XBRL to expedite and ease financial reporting and analysis. That workshop is now online and we highly recommend it to: investors and analysts regulators standards setters; and XBRL professionals and vendors Presentations […]
Just as the world is shifting to wholesale reliance on digital structured data, there remains an effort within the US Congress to exempt smaller US companies. We believe that would harm transparency, hurting investors and small companies alike.
The Central Bank of Russia is leading the modernisation and digitisation of the financial sector in that country and the use of XBRL for data collection is a key part of this initiative. The XBRL Russia website (it translates very effectively in Chrome) has recently been formally launched and contains a wealth of information about […]
The annual conference for the global XBRL community, is now open! Data Amplified is where the world’s most influential accounting professionals, policy makers, standards setters, regulators, technologists, issuers and innovaters meet to define the future of business reporting. Register today to join us in Paris between 6 and 8 November 2017 for this year’s most important event in our […]
Chaired by Michael Bloomberg, the FSB Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is due to publish its final report in July. The TCFD is developing voluntary, consistent, climate-related financial risk disclosures for use by companies in providing information to investors, lenders, insurers, and other stakeholders. One of TCFD’s main challenges is to create a […]
The SEC is seeking input on its proposals to switch from XBRL to iXBRL for financial statement filings for companies and mutual funds. The practical impact of this change would include a shift from “dual” filing, in which an HTML financial disclosure is filed as well as a separate XBRL document. Instead a single Inline […]
UK Companies House XBRL Data is central to the business model of a new startup. Populous claims to be an invoice factoring and trade finance platform being built using the latest in blockchain technology. Using free financial statement data available in XBRL format for UK companies, the young team seeks to pool financing via an ether-based […]
The UK’s central bank has opened up applications for a new round of its FinTech accelerator program and one of the areas it would like to explore is big data storage of XBRL. According to the regulator, 70%-80% of its regulatory data is in XBRL format and they are interested in new ways to realise […]
This week a RegTech conference entitled “Blockchain and Open Platforms: APIs, XBRL and Ecosystems” was held in Moscow to examine a range of topics impacting the financial sector. There is hot debate in Russia about the pros and cons of different blockchain protocols and the purpose and eventual impact on the banking sector of Open […]
With around 300 SEC issuers in Canada (companies that have raised money on US markets) it is significantly impacted by the new IFRS FPI rules published by the SEC. XBRL Canada will hold a webinar on 24 May to help local firms understand the requirements to prepare XBRL or iXBRL versions of their accounts from […]
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