Dramatic changes to the UK audit sector were proposed in a report this week setting out recommendations from an independent review of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). The audit profession and its regulator have been under intense scrutiny following a number of high profile corporate failures. The recommendations address gaps in FRC powers, setting a course for […]
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) earlier this week announced that the 2019 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy and 2019 SEC Reporting Taxonomy (SRT) are both available. The GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy contains updates for accounting standards and other recommended improvements. The 2019 SRT contains elements necessary to meet SEC requirements for financial schedules, condensed consolidating financial information for guarantors, […]
We are very pleased to round out the year by being able to announce that new versions of the Open Information Model (OIM) and xBRL-JSON specifications have been released for public review. The release includes some significant improvements and simplifications to the xBRL-JSON representation, which provides an alternative representation for XBRL data. This is part of our effort to […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are seeking input on the on-going debate surrounding the effects of mandated quarterly reporting. Earlier this week the SEC published a request for comments on how the Commission can reduce the burden on reporting companies while making sure disclosures are still (or more) effective and ensuring that investors have […]
In the last quarter, we have reported on the Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM) adopting XBRL for the annual and financial filings of more than one million companies countrywide through the introduction of the Malaysian Business Reporting System (MBRS). At Data Amplified in Dubai this year we heard from Dato’ Zahrah Abd Wahab Fenner, SSM CEO, and […]
Great news this week as the efficiencies to be gained when tagging and structuring data bear fruit. The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) released a Beta version of the LEI search tool 2.0 on Tuesday. The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) enables clear and unique identification of entities engaging in financial transactions – put simply, […]
“An indiscriminate adoption of Big Data runs the risk of collecting – without connecting – too many dots,” argue Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and Goetz von Peter, Principal Economist at the BIS. Their remarks, based on a speech delivered at the Ninth European Central […]
Singapore’s Advisory Council on the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence and Data convened for their inaugural meeting on Friday, Nov 30. The Advisory Council brings together international industry leaders in technology and AI, local companies using AI, social and consumer interest advocates, academia and government. The council members discussed the ethical use of AI and […]
This week a group of US regulators have announced that they will not penalise banks that use artificial intelligence tools to find gaps in existing anti-money laundering programmes. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the National Credit Union Administration, and […]
We’ve covered the growing support for US state level XBRL several times over the past couple of months, including the move towards local Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFRs) and the benefits of structured data for municipal bond markets. This week saw another addition to the debate with publication of a report from The Data Foundation and Workiva: Transparent State […]
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