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March 24, 2017

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Real Time Economy 2017

March 24, 2017

Aalto University in Helsinki will once again host the Real Time Economy conference, coming up on 11-12 May 2017. This year focussing on end-to-end automated reporting, including with XBRL GL, the event is extremely useful for policy makers, regulators, academics and industry professionals interested in improving reporting through digitisation and cross-agency collaboration on data collection […]

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More Bank Data in XBRL?

March 24, 2017

The US SEC continues to move forward with a digital agenda that seems to have the dual aims of enhancing the regulator’s effectiveness, as well as improving the analytically useful information available to investors and markets. The Commission announced earlier this month a Request for Comment on a set of changes to the Statistical Disclosures […]

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Financial Transparency Act Reintroduced in the US

March 17, 2017

New RegTech legislation would oblige US regulators to use common standards, common definitions and common identifiers. Information would be made available as part of government Open Data efforts.

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Comments Inline Please

March 17, 2017

On 28 February the SEC proposed a rule to mandate the use of Inline XBRL for public company reporting. The intention is to improve the quality of the data, benefit investors, market participants and other data users, and also to decrease over time the costs involved in preparing the data for submission to the regulator […]

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XBRL on the way for South Africa

March 17, 2017

Business Regulator aims to improve efficiency, effectiveness and quality of financial reporting, and pave the way for other regulators in South Africa to adopt XBRL.

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FSB proposes governance arrangements for the UTI

March 17, 2017

Not enough acronyms in your life? We didn’t think so. New identifier will help provide a new kind of financial transaction audit trail, reducing risk and enhancing transparency.

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Will blockchain revolutionise business?

March 17, 2017

Is the existing legal, economic and political framework ready for a digital transformation? In a digital world that relies on distributed ledgers, the way we regulate and maintain contracts, transactions, and the records that support them will have to change dramatically. There are many possible scenarios but a new article in the Harvard Business Review […]

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Setback for Bitcoin?

March 17, 2017

To underline the point made in the previous article, this week the SEC rejected an application to create the first bitcoin-backed exchanged trade fund or ETF. The application came from the sometimes controversial Winklevoss twins, which may or may not have had anything to do with the result. Based on the SEC’s decision, it seems unlikely that […]

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The world’s first blockchain-enabled media trading platform is set to launch in the fourth quarter of 2017

March 17, 2017

To perhaps round out the question of adoption speed, the – unregulated – world of digital advertising has a new entrant this week in the form of NYIAX, or New York Interactive Advertising Exchange. The new intermediary will seek to improve the way that digital ad buyers and sellers do business. The NYIAX will use […]

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