Items tagged with "financial services"

XBRL US & ConsenSys Form A Working Group To Develop Blockchain Tokenization Standards

XBRL US and ConsenSys, a blockchain technology company, announced the formation of a working group to develop standards for tokenization of assets on the blockchain. A token is a digital representation of an asset, e.g., debt, equity, cash or a physical asset (i.e. a vehicle or a piece of artwork).


CFA Institute’s Sandra Peters to Keynote XBRL US Investor Forum, November 4 in New York

Speakers from Bloomberg, Credit Suisse, OFR/Treasury, SEC, S&P Capital IQ confirmed XBRL US today announced a ½ day forum for investors, analysts, regulators, data and analytical tool providers:  Improving Financial Analysis through Structured Data. The forum is hosted by Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business at their E. 25th Street campus and offered through partnerships […more]


SEC Rule Proposed: Investment Co Reporting Modernization

On May 20, the SEC published a rule proposal: Investment Company Reporting Modernization, which would make certain changes to investment company reporting requirements including introducing new forms and retiring some old forms. The proposal, which will be out for a 60 day public comment period, would also require the reporting of information in structured data […more]


Corporate Actions

Over 5.3M corporate actions were processed in 2015, according to The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Most announcements are processed manually, resulting in errors, time delays and unnecessary cost, negatively affecting investors across the financial community. Business Case for XBRL in Corporate Actions XBRL enables straight-through-processing by electronically capturing standardized data directly from issuers […more]


Progress through Collaboration: A New Investment Roadmap

Tuesday, October 12, 2010 – FIX Protocol Ltd. (FPL), Financial Products Markup Language (FpML), International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication (ISITC), Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) US and Financial Information Services Division of SIIA (FISD), today published their updated Investment Roadmap. The roadmap’s purpose is to provide […more]