Great news yesterday regarding the expanded use of XBRL across the capital markets by the Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC). The US SEC Commission voted to propose rules to require public companies (+14,500) to disclose the relationship between executive compensation and the financial...
Interesting debate yesterday before the US Senate Banking Committee on the topic of expanding disclosures of US companies to include environmental, social and governance data besides just financial disclosures
Watch out United States EDGAR Online – the European Union is building a “next generation” -- “EDGAR-LIKE” corporate disclosure platform to be used by 28 EU member states for global investors that will be built upon BLOCKCHAIN and global financial and non-financial data access standards like...
Yesterday at a summit of central bank governors in Amsterdam -- the governor of the Bank of England warned that climate change could have a "catastrophic impact" on the global financial system. Speaking at the summit -- Mark Carney reiterated previous warnings that the global financial system...
Great article written by the global law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP on the need for public companies to be aware of the growing trend of non-financial reporting disclosures (commonly known as "Sustainability Reports", "Corporate, Social Responsibility (CSR)", "Environmental, Social,...
As the former Chief Economist of the US Senate Banking Committee – US SEC Commissioner Piwowar has been very skeptical about the use of XBRL for public company disclosure and the cost to public companies for compliance but his remarks this week are very balanced and objective regarding the use and rewards of XBRL by the US SEC and public companies and pleased that he wants to take XBRL to the next level using in-line XBRL