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XBRL News sustainability reporting and X’s

Here are the three most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week.  1  India gears up for digital sustainability reporting India is once again in the vanguard of digital reporting, as it enables filing of the new Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR) in…
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28 July 2022 0

MiCA – Not Good, Not Bad

Last week the EU reached an agreement on its Markets in Cryptoassets (MiCA) directive, delivering a single rule book across 27 countries and bringing years of debate on how to regulate the digital-asset industry to an informal close. As the final step, it still needs to be approved by the Council and the European Parliament.…
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4 July 2022 0

Whose eyeing your wallet? Blind regulators

Scanning this week’s news there were a few stories that caught my eye. The Central African Republic has adopted bitcoin as legal tender, becoming the second country in the world to do so after El Salvador. To say that this is big news is an understatement. Oddity, a D2C makeup company, is offering a security token…
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2 May 2022 0

Europe wants to go its own way on digital identity

In its latest ambitious digital policy announcement, the European Union has proposed creating a framework for a “trusted and secure European e-ID” (aka digital identity) — which it said today it wants to be available to all citizens, residents and businesses to make it easer to use a national digital identity to prove who they…
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4 June 2021 0

Ireland opens GDPR investigation into Facebook leak

Facebook’s lead data supervisor in the European Union has opened an investigation into whether the tech giant violated data protection rules vis-a-vis the leak of data reported earlier this month. Here’s the Irish Data Protection Commission’s statement: “The Data Protection Commission (DPC) today launched an own-volition inquiry pursuant to section 110 of the Data Protection…
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14 April 2021 0