Finland’s plan to have almost every limited company file its accounts in iXBRL has now passed in the Parliament of Finland and now just awaits final assent and publication. Bill HE 96/2026 passed with amendments on 13 October.
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) is reorganising its XBRL taxonomy and expanding Open DART, the open-data service attached to its Data Analysis, Retrieval and Transfer System (DART), to make disclosures easier for investors to analyse and reuse.
As artificial intelligence (AI) takes on a larger role in preparing and analysing company information, the need for human judgement, professional scepticism and quality-assured data grows with it.
Sustainability standards are converging, but the data they produce still doesn’t line up. That is the case made by ‘Lost in Translation’, a new report from the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA), whose members include Bloomberg, LSEG, MSCI and S&P Global.