With the upcoming update to the EDGAR System, the SEC plans to introduce two phase authentication when requesting a reset for an EDGAR passphrase. Filers are advised to update their contact information on EDGAR before this change goes into effect.
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SEC To Introduce Two Phase Authentication When Resetting an EDGAR Passphrase
Friday, January 13. 2017
Legato Developers Corner #17: Random Numbers
In this blog, we are going to take a look at the random number functions in Legato and create a real world, usable Legato script to aid in that daily, ever present quandary of what to order for lunch.
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Trump Names Jay Clayton To Lead SEC
On January 4th, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Jay Clayton as the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Clayton is currently a partner at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, which works with investment and other Wall Street firms on mergers, acquisitions, and regulatory oversight.
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What To Expect in 2017
There are quite a few changes that SEC filers can expect in the upcoming year. Regulations become effective and compliance dates are set that will have varying degrees of impact on financial and EDGAR reporting. Here’s a quick overview of what you can expect this year from the SEC.
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Legato Developers Corner #16: What Time Is It? Date and Time Functions
Legato has several functions to help manage displaying and tracking time. It might be very useful to know, for example, how long has it been since the last action was performed. Say you want to run a task every five minutes. Well, you need some way to check to see if five minutes has elapsed or not. Additionally, if you want to display time to a user, you need to make sure that the time is displayed in an intelligible format, not just a number of milliseconds seconds since 1970 or something equally useless to anyone except a machine. This article will discuss a few of the functions that simplify this.
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Friday, December 30. 2016
Legato Developers Corner #15: String Testing and Translation
This week we will be covering scanning, testing, and some functions for manipulating textual string data.
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Legato Developers Corner #14: Processing Parameters with Strings and Arrays
This week we will be examining how to use SDK functions to read and write structured “parameter-value” pairs and how they can be used to access information from menu functions. Our main example will show how to open a file in the application desktop, perform EDGAR validation and get the results.
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Legato Developers Corner #13: Exploding Strings and Files
No, they don’t actually go BOOM! Legato features both implode and explode functions that allow strings to be created from or turned into arrays of strings. There are actually a number of functions for different purposes, such as exploding formatted text or a parameter array. These functions bundle a lot of horsepower into just a few operations and when combined with other functions, they make it easy to load or write complex data.
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Looking back at 2016, a number of developments in SEC regulations and EDGAR compliance occurred that have a significant impact on financial record-keeping, financial reporting and capital formation. We recap some of the most significant changes that happened last year before we turn our attention forward to 2017.
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SEC Releases EDGAR 16.4
On December 12, 2016, EDGAR 16.4 was released by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This release primarily contained updates for Form MA and Form ABS-EE.
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Legato Developers Corner #12: Understanding Strings
One of the design goals of Legato was to make it easy for programmers to process and manage textual information. To that end, there are hundreds of string functions in Legato that simplify parsing and manipulating text.
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Legato Developers Corner #11: Sending Email With Legato
While writing Legato scripts, a common task is to alert a user or list of users about an action taking place. One of the best ways to do this is through sending an email. Legato has a very handy built-in function EmailSendMessage, that can do this for you with very little effort. Below is a basic script that shows how you can send an email.
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Wednesday, November 23. 2016
Controlling Windows Update in Windows 10
With the changing pace of technology, companies like Microsoft need to be vigilant about security issues. Every office has experienced it – that one user that gets a virus and the whole office becomes infected in a matter of minutes. To combat this problem Microsoft has started to force computers to update automatically. Gone are the days of Windows XP where users could continue to hit “Postpone” for weeks on end. Now we have the new Windows Update that installs and restarts your computer for you. Instead of coming into work to a virus attack, users are now unfortunately coming into work to find their documents and applications closed and their computers restarted.
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Legato Developers Corner #10: Hooking Functions to Application Startup
So far in this blog, we’ve mentioned a couple of ways that Legato can improve or replace existing functionality and add new features entirely to GoFiler through the use of hooks that can happen pre- or post-process on a GoFiler function or by hooking a script to custom menu items. Now we’ll talk about a third method of enhancing GoFiler’s functionality.
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How To Handle Heavy EDGAR Traffic
Monday, November 14, 2016 is a day that some will later remember as nerve-wracking and irritating. At about quarter after 4PM, e-mail messages started being exchanged among members of the EDGAR Filing Consortium, which is an informal group of industry members from financial printers, law firms, and EDGAR software developers. These e-mails were asking if anyone was experiencing problems transmitting filings to the SEC.
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