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SEC's new guidance for websites and blogs posted
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 comments [...]
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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 anyone [...]
The most-hyped technologies for IR in 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.
Some of the [...]
Task Force Urges Ambitious Paperless Disclosure Model for Canada
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 have any [...]
Websites and Blogs Should Be Approved for Scheduled Disclosures
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 equal to [...]
SEC Will Require All Companies To Report in XBRL
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 years, [...]
News Digest for 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 [...]
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