A View from the CLOUD (Sibos 2011): Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs)
As we head into Sibos 2011 in Toronto, one topic already appears to loom large at SWIFT’s annual gathering of leading financial services firms and their customers from around the globe: Legal Entity Identifiers or LEIs. DTCC and SWIFT are to be applauded for their recent mandate to lead...
A View from the CLOUD: The Shape of Finance (Interactive Biz Reporting Magazine)
During the 22nd XBRL International Conference in Brussels, Belgium from May 17-19, 2011, I had the privilege of speaking on how a CLOUD-enabled Internet could propel the advance of XBRL even further. At the conference, the inaugural issue of Interactive Business Reporting magazine was available. After speaking with its...
CLOUDDimensions: Monetary Instruments Though the Lens of WHO, WHAT, WHEN & WHERE (Part 2 – Credit & Debit Cards)
Since the first installment of monetary instruments through the lens of CLOUD Dimensions, I’ve had the pleasure of attending both SWIFT’s Operations Forum of the Americas and am in the midst of the South by Southwest Interactive. Earlier today, I attended two panels at SXSWi. One was on the...
CLOUDDimensions: Monetary Instruments Though the Lens of WHO, WHAT, WHEN & WHERE (Part 1 – Checks)
As I was reading through my opinion piece from Sibos 2010, so graciously included by the editors in the latest SWIFT Dialogue magazine, a number of additional thoughts began to strike me about our monetary instruments and the sheer number of tags that intersect through them. Late last year,...
XBRL – Is its Full Potential Trapped by its Name?
For those that have followed CLOUD for the last several months, you already know that our vision is not only bold, but that it is blessed by some “bright lights” in the XBRL community. From my college friend and the the Sr. Advisor to former Chairman Cox at the...
When Standards Interact: A CLOUD-Inspired Future for XBRL
During a recent trip to Seattle, I had the pleasure of sitting down for lunch with Charlie Hoffman, father of XBRL. Paul Wilkinson, Chief Strategy Officer for CLOUD and former Sr. Adviser to Chairman Cox at the SEC, had introduced us, and we’ve had a few good phone conversations...