A major focus for this year’s Data Amplified is the use of standardisation for reporting within the Enterprise, with transactional and ledger level data being tagged in accordance with taxonomies defined by and managed by business experts. Combined with big data systems for storage and aggregation, which is in turn driven by the taxonomy, this approach […]
Annual reports, once a sheaf of printed paper delivered by snail mail, have evolved considerably with the expansion of digital technology. However, too often, they remain in debt to their paper-based past, reluctant to take advantage of the opportunities digitisation has presented. This week Communicate Magazine and the Evolution of the Annual Report conference have […]
Following the recent update to the IFRS standards in advance of the transition away from discredited interest rate benchmarks such as LIBOR, the IASB have proposed corresponding updates to the IFRS Taxonomy 2019. The Proposed IFRS Taxonomy updates include new elements that reflect the disclosure requirements introduced by the recent amendments to IFRS 9, IAS 39 and […]
The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is working on machine learning techniques to predict bank distress. Using novel data sources, mainly confidential regulatory returns, this still experimental early warning system for predicting bank distress significantly outperformed other models. This development follows the Danish Business Authority’s machine learning-based Early Warning Europe, which uses large data sets from five European countries […]
Continuing on the theme from last story, what is the next big disrupter in financial markets? You guessed it. According to a recent Greenwich Associates report, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to have a big impact, with 44% of capital market professionals saying that their firms are already using AI in their trading processes. Firms […]
This week The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) launched a field test on revised and proposed templates as part of the 2020 Solvency II reporting and disclosure review. The review covers both the content and structure of different templates, with this field test designed to identify main issues with the new and revised […]
The XBRL Standards Board has approved the publication of a Candidate Recommendation of the new xBRL-CSV specification.
With their impending exit from the European Union, will the UK adopt the European Single Electronic Format (ESEF) that becomes mandatory across the EU in January 2020? The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have released an update indicating that they are preparing to adopt ESEF in a scenario where the UK remains subject to EU law […]
XBRL and Inline XBRL (iXBRL) are two different formats for structured, electronic business reports. These formats solve different business problems and reflect the broad range of reporting requirements that can benefit from the use of structured XBRL data. XBRL or iXBRL? This is one of the key decisions that data collectors need to make when […]
For all of our readers that are joining us at Data Amplified in Shanghai in just 10 days time, we have a few tips for you to prepare for your trip to China. If you want to use social media, Google or Gmail on your laptop while you’re in China you may need to use a recognised, reputable VPN. […]
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