Turkey’s electronic Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) demonstrates the potential of the XBRL format for enabling enhanced business transparency and data usability. All documents requiring public disclosure in Turkey – that is, financial statements and material events – must be certified with a secure electronic signature and published on KAP. This offers everyone – including investors, […]
In a recent report the European Banking Authority (EBA) has noted some improved consistency in Pillar 3 prudential disclosures, although further improvements are necessary. Pillar 3 disclosures are designed to foster increased transparency and market discipline by requiring regulated firms to make a range of prudential information about banks (and insurance companies) public. However, the […]
Co-operation between regulators on minimising cyber risk has ramped up recently as the EU’s Cyber Resilience Board has launched a pan-European initiative to share cyber information. Last week, at their fourth meeting, the Board launched the Cyber Information and Intelligence Sharing Initiative (CIISI-EU). This is the first time pan-European agencies have come together to co-operate […]
As part of wider digitisation efforts under LEAP (Leading Efficiency through Automated Prowess), the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) are launching the county’s first centralised data repository. The repository is aimed at improving transparency, consumer protection and technological advancement in the life insurance sector, and will contain important insurance data electronically. SECP Chairman Aamir […]
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, […]
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