Following the European Single Electronic Format (ESEF) passing into law on 29 May with the publication of the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS), ESMA has published a draft update to the RTS. The new draft updates the RTS’s core taxonomy, which has been based on the 2017 IFRS taxonomy, to the 2019 IFRS taxonomy, ensuring the ESEF […]
Mohini Singh, ACA, Director of Financial Reporting, CFA Institute and Campbell Pryde, President and CEO, XBRL US have published a blog on the XBRL US website demonstrating why blockchain and AI cannot replace the XBRL standard. We sometimes hear the argument that XBRL is old technology and should be replaced with technologies like blockchain or […]
The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) have published their second Status Report, analysing the extent to which companies have aligned their disclosures with the TCFD’s core recommendations. The Status Report has found an encouraging steady increase in the support for TCFD recommendations – with more than 800 organizations expressing support – and has […]
XBRL International held a Member Assembly meeting yesterday, with reports on strategy, current goals, objectives and initiatives, technical developments in the XBRL 2.1 stack of specifications and the Open Information Model as well as enhancements to official Guidance. Want to know more about the next steps for the Open Information Model? Better still, would you […]
On 10 June the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that the EDGAR system has been updated to version 19.2. Amongst other changes, the latest update to EDGAR ensures it can support the 2019 IFRS Taxonomy, and EDGAR version 19.2 will no longer support the 2017 US GAAP, 2016 Currencies, 2014 DEI and 2017 […]
The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have issued a document of key findings, good practice and next steps for transition from the London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to risk-free rates (RFR) for firms to consider when planning their own transition. After a series of manipulation scandals, the once-dominant LIBOR benchmark is being abandoned, with the […]
Almost every political party seeks to reduce administrative burden (or “cut red tape”) before getting into office. The vast majority fail to do so. In the Netherlands, Australia, and now Finland and Ukraine, there are efforts aimed at one of the key “root causes” of reporting burden. Rather than trying to fundamentally change the reporting […]
Since 2012 the Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) System has been used to uniquely identify over 1.4 million entities in more than 200 countries, standardising the identification of entities globally and bringing substantial regulatory benefits. However, take up beyond financial services is still slow, and further adoption is needed for the identifier to meet all of […]
Filing rules are specific technical requirements, including descriptions of limitations of filing system. They are needed to ensure that XBRL and iXBRL reports are accepted by data collection systems used by regulators, exchanges and data aggregators. Each reporting programme defines a list of filing rules addressing more or less the same categories of rules. The Filing Manual Task Force, […]
It’s already clear that climate change will present real financial risks to insurers over the coming decades – but how should the sector respond? A cross industry working group set up by the UK’s PRA has published a framework for the general insurance sector to guide them through assessing the financial impacts of climate change. […]
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