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Data Amplified 2019: SASB Advocate Structured Data for Sustainability Reporting

October 23, 2019

Madhu Matthew from the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) gave Data Amplified an introduction to the importance of structured data to the work SASB are doing to connect businesses and investors on the financial impact of sustainability. Much sustainability information today is reported from a marketing perspective, in a glossy CSR report with rampant greenwashing. […]

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Data Amplified 2019: Governance of Reporting

October 23, 2019

John Turner, XBRL International CEO and Robert Tarola, Chair of the XBRL International Board of Directors, kicked off Wednesday morning at Data Amplified with an interesting discussion on the changing requirements for financial reporting governance in a digital reporting ecosystem. Tarola, who has an extensive background in audit, CFO, and board of director roles, demonstrated […]

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Data Amplified 2019: Granular Data – The Next Frontier?

October 23, 2019

There is increasing interest in granular data from financial regulators around the world. This means moving thousands of facts around – for example, dealing with transaction data within enterprises. To make sure this data remains meaningful and efficient standards need to provide new ways to exchange information. At Data Amplified 2019 Michal Piechocki, Member of […]

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Data Amplified 2019: China, the First Country to Kill Cash?

October 22, 2019

Keynote speaker Mr Jerry Zhou, Chairman and CEO of Huifu Payment, gave the audience of Data Amplified an insight into China’s booming payments industry. China’s payment industry is renowned – with most people in China using mobile payment based on QR codes for daily payments. Zhou even argued that you could say ‘China is the […]

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Data Amplified 2019: Financial Reporting for New Economies: To Structure or Not to Structure?

October 22, 2019

We are in an era characterised by the explosive growth of new economies. New, rapidly expanding industries on the cutting edge of technology are increasingly the driving force of economic growth. Think Amazon, Apple, Tencent, Alphabet, Alibaba and Samsung. But how can the value of new economies best be recorded within financial statements? And should […]

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Drilling Down to the Details

October 20, 2019

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 […]

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The Evolution of the Annual Report

October 20, 2019

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 […]

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LIBOR Update to IFRS Taxonomy Proposed

October 20, 2019

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 […]

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Predicting UK Bank Distress with Machine Learning

October 20, 2019

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 […]

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From Structured Data to Artificial Intelligence

October 20, 2019

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 […]

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