By IR Web Report on August 9, 2010
EUROPEAN Union securities regulators last week put out a paper on creating a central disclosure system — but with so many vested interests to placate it seems implausible that investors will soon have a single gateway to EU securities filings.
Posted in Articles | Tagged CESR, compay websites, Europe, Regulatory Filings, web feeds, XBRL
By IR Web Report on December 18, 2008
AFTER several years of evangelizing it at every opportunity, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Christopher Cox yesterday finally sealed what he hopes will be his legacy. The commission voted 4 to 1 to approve rules that will require all registered companies to use eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) when submitting their financial statements [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged iXBRL, mandatory, SEC, XBRL
By IR Web Report on December 11, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will meet on December 17 to decide whether to make eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) mandatory for public company financial statement information. The move has been widely anticipated following the publication of a rule proposal in May. It was thought by some in the XBRL community that the [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, IFRS, interactive data, Investor Relations, SEC, securities and exchange commission, XBRL
By IR Web Report on September 11, 2008
UPDATE: SEC spokesman John Heine sent me three emails in response to this article along with additional materials related to the SEC’s own trademark application. A US Patent and Trademark Office document (PDF 228 KB, 12 pages) forwarded to me by Heine says: “The Office records have been searched and there are no similar registered [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged interactive data, Investor Relations, securities and exchange commission, XBRL
By IR Web Report on September 9, 2008
IN PART one of this review, I mentioned that the US National Investor Relations Institute’s (NIRI’s) executive alert on investor relations websites includes a list of 14 Do’s and Don’ts for IR departments to follow. In this post, I review each of the guidelines and explain why I think they’re either good or bad. The [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, IR websites, national investor relations institute, NIRI, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
By IR Web Report on September 8, 2008
THE US National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) has issued a 5-page briefing on investor relations website practices based on a review they did of the largest 100 US companies’ sites. On one level I can’t help but applaud the guidelines because they are long overdue. Investor relations websites have been around for more than 10 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, IR websites, national investor relations institute, NIRI, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
By IR Web Report on August 27, 2008
TWO influential US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alumni have raised concerns that broadening the use of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) to non-financial information will increase disclosure costs, raise difficult legal liability issues, and create burdens on companies that are “formidable in the extreme.” Former SEC commissioner and Stanford Law School professor Joseph Grundfest, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, financial reporting, interactive data, Internet, Investor Relations, Joseph Grundfest, XBRL
By IR Web Report on August 25, 2008
AS THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) considers new rules to require companies to begin filing their documents in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), it has been having trouble finding software experts who can help make those filings usable to investors. The commission put out a pressing call in June for contractors to help [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged EDGAR, finance, financial statements, footnotes, IDEA, interactive data, Internet, Investor Relations, Officer Michael Davis, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
By IR Web Report on August 19, 2008
I’VE BEEN following the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) moves around eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) for the past few years and I’m confused about why they chose now to announce that they will be launching a new database to host XBRL for companies and mutual funds. The only real news at the conference, which [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Ed Hodder, finance, IDEA, Investor Relations, SEC, securities and exchange commission, webcast, XBRL
By IR Web Report on August 19, 2008
YESTERDAY afternoon, a number of bloggers got an email inviting them to a press conference webcast today with US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Chris Cox where he is supposed to unveil a “futuristic information disclosure system for investors and markets.” No further details on this new system were provided, but at least one [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, EDGAR, IDEA, interactive data, Investor Relations, SEC, XBRL
By IR Web Report on August 2, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published its 47-page interpretive release that explains how companies can use their websites and blogs to meet its requirements for public disclosure under Regulation FD. Here’s a Scribd version of the complete release, which can also be downloaded in PDF from the SEC’s website. See my initial [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, blogs, Compensation, corporate governance, disclosure, disclosure documents, earnings, EDGAR, electronic delivery, feedback, feeds, finance, financial information, financial reporting, forums, insider trading, Internet, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites, law, management, market participants, new york stock exchange, newswires, nyse, proxy statement, quarterly reports, rss, SEC, securities, securities act, securities and exchange commission, strategy, technology, usability, XBRL, XML
By IR Web Report on July 29, 2008
NEW YORK-based broker Auerbach Grayson & Company, Inc., which specializes in providing global trade execution and research to leading US institutional investors, is providing its clients with a huge global library of equity research reports in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) format. The new offering, which the brokerage is offering at no charge to its [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged analyst, Eric Linder, gaap, institutional investors, pdf documents, portfolio manager, portfolio managers, SEC, SEC filings, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
By IR Web Report on June 25, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange commission has launched a study that could lead to the scrapping of its 75-year-old system that requires companies to file disclosures on prescribed forms like 10Ks, Form 4s and DEF 14As.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, e-proxy, EDGAR, ir department, ir departments, mandate, new york times, plain language, recommendation, retail investors, rutgers university, SEC filings, securities and exchange commission, stanford university, technology, us sec, XBRL
By IR Web Report on May 30, 2008
JUST in time for the weekend, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today posted the full text of the proposed rules for mandatory XBRL filings for domestic and foreign public companies. The proposed rules (embedded below) apply to domestic and foreign public companies that prepare their financial statements according to U.S. GAAP, and foreign [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual report, annual reports, financial information, financial statements, foreign private issuers, gaap, IASB, interactive data, law, liability regime, quarterly reports, rule proposal, SEC, securities, securities act, securities and exchange commission, us sec, usgaap, XBRL
By IR Web Report on May 29, 2008
WE “TRAVEL” to Japan regularly as part of our research of how companies around the world are using the web to communicate with their investors. When we first started going there, standards of online IR communication were exceptionally poor. Except for a couple of firms like NTT DoCoMo and Sony, the country’s blue chips as [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate governance, disclosure, disclosure practices, international investors, Investor Relations, investor relations website, ir communications, japan inc, japanese companies, japanese firm, NTT, ntt docomo, retail investor, reuters, steel partners, XBRL
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