XBRL-Europe made several announcements during XBRL20:

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telemunication (SWIFT) has bee its newest member. SWIFT supplies secure messaging services and interface software to wholesale financial entities.

The Usability Forum Working Group was formed to focus on the needs of XBRL users within Europe.

The EU Business Registers Working Group is currently developing a taxonomy that identifies mon elements across business filings to the various European business registries.

“Millions of XBRL-tagged financial statements have been filed with the European business registries,” said Gilles Maguet, Secretary-General of XBRL-Europe. “The EU Business Registers Working Group is defining a mon layer of more than 300 elements to streamline the filing of annual aounts to the registries.”