Late last week the US SEC announced that public companies in the United States can voluntarily begin to use the iXBRL data format for submission of financial statements to the US EDGAR System. US SEC has mandated that all public companies (estimated to be 14,500) tag their financial...
Great article from the global law firm of Baker McKenzie about mandatory requirements from securities regulators for public company sustainability disclosure that also needs to be included in financial reporting as a company “best practice.” CFOs, financial reporting teams and management...
Interesting guest article posted today on Kevin LaCroix’s D&O DIARY written by Robert F. Carangelo, Paul A. Ferrillo and Andrew Cauchi of the Weil Gotshal law firm. The article takes a look at the US SEC’s recent focus on financial reporting and the use of new technologies to detect...
Interesting story in Reuters today about how EU Regulators are backing-off regulating BLOCKCHAIN for NOW. Late last month Christopher Giancarlo, a member of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) , said that regulators should "DO NO HARM" and allow blockchain to flourish. In...
According to CNBC, banks could be using bitcoin by the end of next year based on the development with the adoption of new cloud-based ledger technology called “blockchain”. According to a report by TABB research -- “Capital markets could adopt the technology behind bitcoin as early as next...
Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) will be introducing the Financial Transparency Act of 2015 that will mandate standards like XBRL across the capital markets and possible link to the Global Legal Entity Initiative (LEI). This announcement today, follows the announcement last week from the...
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