Version 4.25c of all applications in the GoFiler Suite has been released. This release contains a number of improvements to Form N-CEN View, Form SDR View and Form ABS-EE View. Additionally, improvements and corrections were made to Page View and to general file recovery across all software platforms.
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New Release (4.25c) for the GoFiler Family of Products
Monday, January 28. 2019
SEC Resumes Normal Operation
On Friday, President Trump signed a bill to reopen the federal government for three weeks until February 15. As of Monday, January 28, the SEC is currently open and fully staffed with a return to normal operations. During the transition to normal operations, staff response times may be longer than ordinary. Certain SEC Divisions and Offices, including our Divisions of Corporation Finance, Trading and Markets, Investment Management and the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, will be publishing statements regarding their transition plans at www.sec.gov in the upcoming days.
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LDC #120: Quickly Sharing and Managing Data Between Scripts
Scripts can share a data pool that transcends the life of a script and can therefore be shared by multiple other scripts. There are other methods of storing what we usually call “meta” data, but session data is specifically designed to allow scripts to communicate and share information over time and threads. In this blog, we will explore session data and, as a side discussion, atomic operations.
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LDC #119: Bulk Filings Part 4
Last week, Dave added to our Bulk Filing script, giving it the ability to add folders and to detect if it’s going over the maximum allowable size from the SEC. This week, we’re going to do our final update on this script and develop its ability to actually file to the SEC. As part of this, we’re going to read back the SEC’s response, determine if it’s an error or a success, and if it’s a success we’ll parse the accession notices out and create an output file that maps the accession number to the original file. This will be very handy in case one of the filings comes back suspended, so you can just look up the accession number of the file to see which one failed.
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SEC Closed Monday, January 21
The SEC will be closed Monday, January 21 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The EDGAR System will not receive, process or accept filings on this day. Filings with a due date of January 21 will be due the following business day.
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SEC Brings Charges in EDGAR Hacking Case
On January 15th, the SEC announced charges against nine defendants for participation in a previously disclosed scheme to hack into the EDGAR system for the purposes of illegal trading. Included in the defendants were a Ukranian hacker and six individual traders in California, Ukraine, and Russia. There were also two entities charged. The hacker and some of the traders were involved in a similar scheme to hack into newswire services to trade on information not yet publicly available. As a result of those activities, the hacker and his conspirators were charged in 2015.
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LDC #118: Bulk Filings Part 3
This week we will add a few more features to the bulk filing script. Now that Steve has filled in the code to create a bulk filing we can add the finishing touches to increase performance, check that the filing size is within acceptable limits, and improve the user interface. If you haven’t read the previous posts, here are the links to part one and two.
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XBRL US Data Quality Releases Eighth Ruleset for Comment
The XBRL US Center for Data Quality has released the eighth set of rules and is seeking comment during a public exposure period ending February 1, 2019. The Data Quality Committee rules aim to help filers limit mistakes and avoid data inconsistencies that can adversely affect analysis of reported financial information. This release includes rules for issuers using either the US-GAAP or IFRS taxonomies.
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XBRL US Data Quality Committee Approves Seventh Ruleset
The XBRL US Center for Data Quality has published the seventh set of rules to provide guidance and aid for issuers in identifying errors in their XBRL SEC filings. The Data Quality Committee rules aim to help filers limit mistakes and avoid data inconsistencies that can adversely affect analysis of reported financial information. The seventh release of rules includes guidance for issuers using the US-GAAP taxonomies.
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New Release (4.25b) for the GoFiler Family of Products
Version 4.25b of all applications in the GoFiler Suite has been released. This release brings Form ATS-N out of beta with all functionality completed. It also contains the new XBRL validation required by the EDGAR Filer Manual as well as a number of corrections and improvements to Page View and Form N-CEN View.
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Friday, January 04. 2019
LDC #117: Building a Section 16 Data Scraper, Part 1: Collection
If you are not familiar with the term Section 16, Section 16 is a section of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. In fact, it is section 16 of the act. Section 16 is a way to attempt to mitigate insider trading at companies. It states that any person who is a director of the company, an officer of the company, or a 10% or more beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, they must file Forms 3, 4, and 5. These forms report the level of equity interests whenever a significant change occurs. The terms that you will see referenced here are reporting owner, who is the person of interest here, and issuer, who is the company that in which the reporting owner has equity.
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