On August 27th, the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) completed an assessment of the tagging in Business Development Companies’ (BDCs’) consolidated statements of operations in Forms 10-K for fiscal year 2025. In conducting this assessment, staff noted several recurring issues in the way certain income and expense line items were tagged, indicating that many filers continue to apply elements that do not align with the structure of BDC financial statements. Continue reading "SEC Issues Guidance on Misuse of Tagging..." »

The SEC has published its semi-annual report to Congress regarding public and internal use of machine-readable data for corporate disclosures, in compliance with the Financial Data Transparency Act of 2022 (FDTA) signed into law in December 2022. The FDTA requires the SEC to submit this report to both the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives every 180 days through December 23, 2029, when the provision requiring the report concludes. Continue reading "SEC Staff Issues Semi-Annual Report to Congress..." »

On July 1st, the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) released updated US capital‑market statistics and new interactive data visualizations. The revision includes expanded information on asset‑backed securities (ABS), municipal advisors, and additional historical data for ABS and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) issuances. Continue reading "SEC Updates Market Statistics Focusing on..." »

In March 2025, SEC final rules required electronic filing, submission, or posting of certain forms, filings, and other submissions that broker-dealers, national securities exchanges, national securities associations, clearing agencies, security-based swap dealers, and major security-based swap participants make with the SEC. Continue reading "SEC Releases Draft 2026Q3 Self-Regulatory..." »

On December 22, 2025, the EDGAR system was updated with Release 25.4 and now supports the updated Filing Fee Disclosure (FFD) Taxonomy. To view the changes included in this updated version, please see the Updated Filing Fee Disclosure (FFD) Taxonomy available on the SEC’s site. Continue reading "SEC Announces 2025 Filing Fee Disclosure (FFD)..." »

In March 2025, SEC final rules required electronic filing, submission, or posting of certain forms, filings, and other submissions that broker-dealers, national securities exchanges, national securities associations, clearing agencies, security-based swap dealers, and major security-based swap participants make with the SEC. Pursuant to the rule, exchanges now must file Form 1 applications and amendments through the EDGAR system, partially in Inline XBRL, a structured, machine-readable data format. The draft 2026Q2 Self-Regulatory Organizations (SRO) taxonomy includes the new elements needed for exchanges to tag Form 1. Continue reading "SEC Releases Draft 2026Q2 Self-Regulatory..." »

On October 14th, the EDGAR system was upgraded to Release 25.3 and now supports the updated Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) Taxonomy. The updated SPAC Taxonomy is now available on the SEC’s website. For additional information, please visit the Standard Taxonomies webpage for a complete listing of supported standard taxonomies. Continue reading "SEC Announces 2025 Update to SPAC Taxonomy" »

On September 12th, the SEC published draft updates to the upcoming 2026 XBRL taxonomies for public comment. The Draft 2026 Release Notes provide more information related to specific changes in the 2026 update for all XBRL taxonomies currently supported by the EDGAR system. Continue reading "SEC Publishes 2026 Draft Taxonomies for Review..." »

On September 5th, the SEC announced the establishment of the Cross-Border Task Force that aims to further the Division of Enforcement's endeavors to detect and combat cross-border fraud harming U.S. investors. The Division will direct its efforts toward companies, intermediaries, exploitative traders that try to use international borders to hinder and avoid U.S. investor protections. Continue reading "SEC Launches New Cross-Border Task Force to..." »

On July 22, staff in the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis issued an amended SPAC taxonomy that will be deployed as part of an upcoming EDGAR Release and will add the Over-allotment Option [Axis] to the dilution source link roles relating to SPAC dilution disclosure. The taxonomy also replaces the Security Class [Axis] (in certain roles relating to sponsor compensation) with Compensation Nature [Axis] (a superset of Security Class [Axis]). This allows filers to declare members needed for tagging non-security types of compensation. Continue reading "SEC Revises Special Purpose Acquisition Company..." »

On July 21, staff in the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis published findings related to an analysis of public float tagging errors. Form 10-K cover pages require the disclosure of the aggregate market value of both voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates computed by reference to the price at which the common equity was most recently sold, or the average bid and asked price of such common equity, such as public float, as of the last business day of a filer’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter. Continue reading "SEC Releases Analysis of Public Float Tagging..." »

On July 14th, the SEC announced that Form N-MFP Data Sets are now available for filers to download and that monthly updates will resume immediately. The monthly data sets previously were paused to update for Form N-MFP3 submissions. Form N-MFP is used for monthly reports of money market funds that report data pertaining to the fund and its portfolio holdings for the previous month. Continue reading "Form N-MFP Data Sets Now Available for..." »

On June 23rd, the SEC's Division of Economic and Risk Analysis adopted amendments to Rule 605 of the Securities Exchange Act, which requires disclosures for order executions in national market system (NMS) stocks. The SEC is releasing the draft report for review and comment. Continue reading "SEC Releases Draft of Order Execution Summary..." »

The SEC's Office of Structured Disclosure reminds the financial reporting community that Rule 405(e) of Regulation S-T provides guidance for tagging requirements for financial statement schedules, which includes a fund's Schedule of Investments (SOI), under rules 12-12, 12-13, 12-13A through 13D, and 12-14 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, a Business Development Company (BDC) is required to tag its SOI in compliance with the tagging requirements in Rule 405(e) of Regulation S-T. Continue reading "SEC Publishes Guidance Regarding Incomplete and..." »

On June 2nd, the SEC's Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) published an analysis of custom tags used in XBRL filings submitted by issuers to comply with the 2009 Interactive Data tagging rules that require financial statement information to be reported in XBRL, a structured, machine-readable format. DERA observed trends in filers' use of custom tags in their XBRL exhibits submitted in Forms 10-K and 10-K/A using US GAAP for fiscal years 2022 through 2024. The analysis of these forms indicates a decrease in average custom tag rate for filings across all filer status, while the large accelerated filer category rate remained flat during that period. Continue reading "SEC Publishes US GAAP–XBRL Custom Tags Trend..." »