On April 24th, the SEC announced the agenda for its May 31st forum that will discuss distributed ledger technology and assets. This conference, which is the 2019 FinTech Forum, will be held by the SEC’s Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub) and will begin at 9:30 am EST in Washington, DC at the SEC’s Headquarters. It will be open to the public on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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SEC Staff Announces Agenda For May 31 FinTech Forum
Friday, April 26. 2019
LDC #133: Checkbox and Radio Button Controls Part Three
Automatic operation of checkbox and radio buttons is easy, but what if you want to extend the functionality or do something out of the ordinary? This blog discusses how to manage the control more closely via button notifications. I will also update the checkbox script from Part One of this series to use notifications to add a narrative description to the dialog.
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LDC #132: Adding Edit Functionality to the Page Break Manager
Last year, I wrote a series of blog posts on a Page Break Manager tool for GoFiler. It allowed users to save page breaks into a style template, rename them, and delete them. One feature was conspicuously absent though, the ability to edit a page break. Well, it seems like now would be a good time to rectify that mistake! This blog post is going to go over how to add the edit function to this script. It’s also a really good example of code should be written in a fairly modular fashion, because it makes it a lot easier to come back in and edit things later. I wrote this seven months ago, I don’t really remember how a lot of the functions work exactly. Things like reading the file into a data table, or saving the file back out, are somewhat complicated, and while I’m sure I could figure out how it’s working, there’s really no need to, since those are self-contained functions within the script. I don’t need to know how they work really, as long as they do what they’re supposed to do I can simply re-use them in this new function without a problem.
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Friday, April 12. 2019
LDC #131: Building a Section 16 Data Scraper, Part 4: Dialog
It’s time to finish up our full script for our Section 16 data scraper. In the first three parts of this series we completed a base script that would go out to the SEC’s website, download all of the filings from a particular CIK, cache all of the Section 16 filings, find all of the reported transactions, put those transactions into a CSV file, and then read all of those transactions and figure out which of those transactions are current holdings. This week we are going to finish up by creating a dialog and adding our script functionality into the dialog.
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Friday, April 05. 2019
LDC #130: Synchronizing Meta Data
This week’s blog post is going to be an example of using Legato to analyze a directory and a csv file, and to update a database with the results. While this script is specialized for a personal website and may have a lot of practical application outside of similar websites, it showcases many of the concepts I want to cover in this blog and illustrates the ability of Legato to bring data together.
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SEC Releases EDGAR 19.1.1
On April 1, 2019, EDGAR Release 19.1.1 was released by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This release included a new “confidential” flag for NPORT-P and NPORT-NP filings as well as changes to the Dissemination Rule for N-PORT filings. Additionally, filers are now allowed submit NPORT-EX as an attachment to NPORT-P and NPORT-NP after August 31, 2019.
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