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 the new filing fee Fedwire payment format is now available in the EDGAR system. The Federal Reserve Bank Fedwire Funds service adopted the ISO 20022 message format on July 14, 2025. The previous Fedwire Application Interface Manual (FAIM) format had a sunset date of July 11, 2025. The Fedwire payment instructions for filing fee registrants have been updated with the implementation of the new format. Continue reading "SEC Launches New Filing Fee Fedwire Payment..." »

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..." »

XBRL US staff will hold a webinar that will focus on EDGAR Next, the rule concerning access to and management of accounts on the SEC’s EDGAR system. More specifically, staff will discuss the transition to EDGAR Next, best practices, lessons learned during the phase in, and special situations that may affect certain filers and filing agents. The rule represents a significant change in the way public companies and investment management companies submit filings to the SEC’s EDGAR System. The SEC reminds registrants that enrollment is required by year-end 2025. Continue reading "XBRL US to Hold Webinar: EDGAR Next Enrollment..." »

On July 2nd, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance updated sections of its Financial Reporting Manual (FRM) in which the Division’s staff periodically publishes informal interpretations for the public. The current version of the FRM has been posted to reflect the 2020 amendments to the S-X Acquisition Rules (S-X 3-05, S-X 3-14, S-X 8-04, and S-X 8-06) and S-X Article 11. The FRM also includes other minor updates. Continue reading "SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance Updates..." »

XBRL US will hold a webinar that will focus on SEC filing fee disclosure requirements. XBRL US staff will provide an overview of lessons learned in the early phase of the launch that may help SEC filers who are beginning to comply in the next phase. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, July 16, 2025, beginning at 3:00 p.m. Eastern. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Continue reading "XBRL US to Discuss SEC Filing Fee Disclosure..." »

On June 30th, the SEC announced that it is amending rules that would require electronic filing or submission of certain forms that must be filed with or submitted to the SEC under the Securities Exchange Act and the rules and regulations under the Exchange Act. The use of a structured, machine-readable data language for electronic filing where appropriate is required for certain disclosures filed or submitted by self-regulatory organizations (SROs) and other entities. Continue reading "SEC Issues 2025 New Derivatives Securities..." »

On June 16th, the SEC adopted amendments to Volume II of the EDGAR Filer Manual. Version 75 of Volume II of the EDGAR Filer Manual, which reflects updates to EDGAR associated with Release 25.2, will be issued on June 16, 2025, and will go into effect once it is published in the Federal Register. Version 76 of Volume II of the EDGAR Filer Manual, which reflects updates to EDGAR associated with the SEC's September 2024 EDGAR Filer Access and Account Management rulemaking (EDGAR Next), will be effective on September 15, 2025. Continue reading "SEC Announces Adoption of Updated EDGAR Filer..." »

On June 11th, the SEC and US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) voted to extend the compliance date to October 1, 2025, for the amendments to Form PF that were adopted in February 2024 to enhance the Financial Stability Oversight Council's ability to monitor systemic risk and to improve the SEC's regulatory oversight of private fund advisers and investor protection efforts. The original compliance date for the rulemaking was March 12, 2025, but was previously extended to June 12, 2025. Continue reading "SEC Announces Further Extension of Form PF..." »

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..." »

The SEC has released its draft of the EDGAR® Filer Manual, Volume II: EDGAR Filing (Version 75) to prepare issuers for potential updates to the EDGAR system scheduled to be introduced in EDGAR Release 25.2 on June 16, 2025. The SEC also issues this draft of the EDGAR Filer Manual to solicit comment from the financial reporting community. Continue reading "SEC Issues Current Draft for Release 25.2 of..." »

On May 16th, the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance released a group of Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs), which represent updates to the Division's interpretations of Section 112. Form SF-1, Asset-Backed Securities. Continue reading "SEC Releases Additional Compliance and..." »

On May 14th, the SEC's Office of Public Affairs determined that certain masked data fields on the publicly available reports on Form N-PORT submitted between February 3, 2025, and May 8, 2025, were inadvertently made public on the SEC's EDGAR system. The unmasking occurred as a result of a software update effective February 3, 2025. The masking error has since been rectified and did not affect Form N-PORT filings submitted after May 8, 2025. Continue reading "SEC Releases Statement on Certain Form N-PORT Data" »