By Dominic Jones 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 Dominic Jones on April 6, 2008
THE EDGAR XML feeds were not even a week old and already intrepid web developers were finding new ways to reuse them. Over at iBanknet, where they have been doing interesting things with XBRL call reports, Marian Albert and Chris Smith saw the opportunity to create a little tool called a “widget” or “gadget” that [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged EDGAR, feeds, Google, Marian Albert, notice-and-access, SEC, SEC filings, ticker symbol, XBRL, XML
By Dominic Jones on December 20, 2006
By Dominic Jones LOOKING back on 2006, which technologies relevant to investor relations failed to live up to the hype that surrounded them? Fortunately, the list is short because IR websites were not the scene of much innovation during 2006. Relatively few new technologies even registered a blip among the 525 sites in our survey. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged AJAX, conference calls, Don Dodge, earnings, earnings calls, GE, IBM, Investor Relations, IR websites, JavaScript, low-rent technology, microsoft, MP3, Roger Johansson, rss, SEC, technology, usability, Web developers, web technologies, XML
By Dominic Jones on October 9, 2006
By Dominic Jones A PRIVATE-SECTOR task force has urged Canada’s securities regulators to scrap all print delivery requirements and move to a completely electronic system based on access equals delivery principles. Established by the Investment Dealers’ Association, a self-regulatory organization for the securities industry, the Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation in Canada does not [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, disclosure, Investment Dealers’ Association, McMaster University, online investor communications, PDF, retail investors, SEC, securities, technology, Thomas Allen, Urges Ambitious Paperless Disclosure Model for Canada By, usability, XBRL, XML
By Dominic Jones on October 5, 2006
By Dominic Jones (1 update added) SUN Microsystems’ CEO Jonathan Schwartz has written to the Securities and Exchange Commission to argue that website postings should be recognized as full and fair disclosure under securities regulations. In essence, he is arguing that by posting material information on its website, a company achieves a level of dissemination [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, conference calls, disclosure, earnings, EDGAR, finance, finance websites, Investor Relations, IR websites, Jonathan Schwartz, management, Michael Dillon, news releases, newswires, rss, SEC, securities, securities and exchange commission, sun microsystems, Tim Bray, URLs, web technologies, wire services, XML, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on September 25, 2006
By Dominic Jones THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is converting its EDGAR database to use Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), paving the way for mandatory filings in the new interactive financial tagging format. The SEC has awarded three contracts totaling $54 million to transform the agency’s public company disclosure system over the next three [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, EDGAR, EDGAR Online Inc., feeds, Keane Federal Systems Inc., Rivet Software, rss, SEC, SEC filings, securities, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Wall Street, XBRL, XML
By Dominic Jones on August 21, 2006
Here are links to 8 articles… Delisting stocks hurts investors | A Look Forward to the High-Definition Web | Banner Year for Majority Elections | For some, public-to-private move may be permanent | Netherlands is New Stomping Ground for Hedge Funds | Moody’s Cites Effects of New Pension Law | Activist Shareholders Flex Their Muscles [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Eric Karp, financial reporting, hedge funds, Japan, law, Look Forward, Moody's, Moody's Investors Service, SEC, securities, stocks, ticker symbol, Web browser, XBRL, XML
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