Thoughts on policy, business, disclosure, and communications
In addition to improving asset-backed securities disclosure (using XBRL perhaps?), SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro called for substantive ABS regulation in a speech Tuesday to SIFMA, the parent organization of the American Securitization Forum (link to colorful Michael Lewis description): ABS Regulation In one final example, I believe there may be gaps that should be filled [...]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The day 3 agenda of the XBRL Pacific Rim Technology Workshop and Summit was simple – approaches to tagging and “rendering” XBRL, data consistency, putting tagged data into databases, and something about “impact investing.” But it generated complex questions: • How can technologists help millions of data users get the different [...]
In the March 30 edition of Advertising Age, Esther Dyson asks if transparency can be a business model. She makes “a proposal for a place to talk to your critics and tell the world how your products are made.” It is, like every word I’ve heard her utter, simply brilliant. I submitted a 500-word comment on [...]