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Chinese Funds Management Event

By Editor on October 29, 2018

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Chinese funds management industry, marked at an event in Beijing attended by senior political as well as industry figures. An effective legal framework that provides a range of investor protections, and a thriving industry was marked at the celebration. One of the “Top 10” events that has helped bring the industry to this point? Scalable regulatory data collections using XBRL. Read more here (In Chinese but translates well with your chosen browser tool).

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Open Banking – What Role for Banks?

By Editor on October 29, 2018

The future of banks was debated at Sibos this week, as a panel asked: “As non-bank entities gain ever-greater access to customers and their data, how can banks stay relevant?”

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AISIBOS

AI Disruption on the Horizon

By Editor on October 29, 2018

Futurist Brett King, CEO and founder of Moven gave his radical futurist vision of the world in 2030 and beyond at the Innotribe opening and keynote on Monday at Sibos.

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AISIBOS

AI at Sibos

By Editor on October 29, 2018

At Sibos, in Sydney this week there was significant focus on Artificial Intelligence, with speakers from a range of backgrounds discussing everything from IoT to AI and ethics.

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One Day With XBRL

By Editor on October 12, 2018

What can be achieved in a single day, with no experience of XBRL? One student who undertook a day long work experience placement with the UK’s Financial Reporting Council demonstrates the potential that can be unlocked by XBRL, even without time or prior knowledge.

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Deutsche Bank’s AI Digs Through ESG Disclosures

By Editor on October 12, 2018

Fast growing interest in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) aspects of investing has led to a data explosion over the past decade. In the US alone, the growth has been spectacular: four-fifths of American companies now publish reports on corporate social responsibility – quadruple that of seven years ago – and in general, the amount of data reported to the SEC has increased five-fold since the financial crisis. While we enthusiastically welcome the increased transparency and trust more data can bring, sifting through all that information is difficult, and investors seem to have particular trouble translating ESG information into investible data, especially as so much of it is unstructured textual, qualitative disclosure, rather than comparable quantitative data.

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BIS Paper Shows Regulation Promotes Growth

By Editor on October 12, 2018

A paper published by BIS this week supports the – hopefully uncontroversial – view that financial regulation upheld by international standards is vital for economic growth. The working paper studies the effects of prudential regulation, financial development and financial openness on economic growth. Based on an analytical review of the channels through which prudential regulation can affect growth and an empirical analysis of the economies in 64 countries, the paper concludes that growth is promoted by regulation that mitigates financial risks. At the same time, financial openness tends to reduce the growth benefits of regulation, potentially due to the opportunities to associated with regulatory arbitrage: conducting financial business in countries where the rules are less strict, or at least different.

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FASB Leases Analysis

By Editor on October 12, 2018

In the US, FASB’s new standard on leases, ASC 842, will come into mandatory effect in January 2019. The new standard will require companies to report leasing costs on the balance sheet, rather than in the notes to the accounts. Leasing debt will be reported as a liability, and “right of use” as an asset, […]

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Regulator Using Blockchain for Cyber Security

By Editor on October 12, 2018

This week the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) said that it has started using blockchain technology to improve cybersecurity – particularly information security, to protect against fraud and ensure the data submitted to the ISA is safe. The ISA have embedded blockchain in their ‘Yael’ system, which is used by the government agency to deliver information […]

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XBRL Sweden Conference Presentations Available

By Editor on October 12, 2018

Our colleagues at XBRL Sweden held their annual conference on October 4 – congratulations on a successful and enlightening day! If you couldn’t make it, the presentations from the conference are now available to download on their website.

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