The US Securities and Exchange Commission have announced that on March 9 the EDGAR system will be updated to handle the following taxonomies: US GAAP 2020 Taxonomy; SEC Reporting 2020 Taxonomy; COUNTRY 2020 Taxonomy; CURRENCY 2020 Taxonomy; EXCH 2020 Taxonomy; and SIC 2020 Taxonomy. Additionally, the SEC will remove the 2012 and 2013 INVEST Taxonomies […]
The Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recently announced a milestone of reaching more than 1,000 supporters globally – indicating a desire within a wide range of market participants to strengthen climate reporting. Increasingly, firms are accepting that climate risk is financial risk – and investor demand for high quality, comparable, accurate data on […]
This month the European Commission launched Europe’s ambitious new data strategy with a flurry of documents and two new consultations. Over the next five years the EU plans to create a single market for data that complements the common economic market ensuring that data should be able to flow across countries and sectors within the […]
Climate issues seem to be… well… hot. This week the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) announced a major review of how companies and auditors assess and report on the impact of climate change. The review will assess to what extent existing reporting requirements, including recommendations for companies to report in line with the TCFD framework, are […]
The Bank of England has now published an updated taxonomy (v1.1.0) and associated validation rules for forms AS and FV, which represent key aspects of the bank’s statistical data collection in XBRL. Read more here.
Municipal governments and US states are sitting on large amounts of potentially useful data – but with disparate software systems leading to proliferating databases and a lack of machine-readable data, it’s currently difficult to analyse. The Reason Foundation is advocating for local governments to make the most of their extensive data sources by implementing Open, […]
On Tuesday, European Commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis gave a speech at a key IFRS conference setting out a broad vision for the future of corporate reporting, incorporating a number of important strands for the XBRL community.
In the Bank of International Settlements’ (BIS) latest podcast Bruno Tissot, Head of Statistics and Research Support at BIS, discusses how we can best use big data, the opportunities and challenges it presents, and the policy issues it creates. Tissot likes to see big data as organic data as opposed to static data: static data is collected […]
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has announced the imminent launch of the country’s first data exchange – which will serve as a platform for data providers and users to buy and sell data. The launch came close on the heels of the National Assembly relaxing regulations on the use of personal data and should […]
Earlier this month the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) held a Meet the Market event in order to explore areas the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) could be further adopted within industry and the public sector. In an opening speech, Klaas Knot, Netherlands Central Bank Governor, described the valuable role the LEI can play in […]
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