Confluence, the global investment management industry’s provider of automated data management solutions announced that the Principal Financial Group® has completed its first Money Market Mutual Fund test filing of Form N-MFP using XML (eXtensible Markup Language) structured content.
XML is a file format mandated for money market mutual fund holdings reporting via EDGAR. The Principal Financial Group completed the filing using Confluence’s Unity® Regulatory Reporting: Form N-MFP and Money Market Fund Holdings software.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Money Market Fund Reform Rule (IC-29132) mandates electronic filing via the new XML Form N-MFP effective December 7, 2010¬. After December 7, this information must be filed with the SEC each month. The regulation also requires fund administrators to prepare and validate these complex filings and create web-r eady content within an unprecedented timeframe of five (5) business days from month end.
“With the Confluence Unity platform we were able to easily and efficiently produce the trial Form N-MFP without the need for manual data tagging or extensive use of cumbersome templates to prepare data,” said Sara Reece, Assistant Financial Controller, The Principal®. “We were able to eliminate manual conversion of documents to machine content. That meant that we could focus on content creation and review and have better controls in place.”
“For fund administrators and service providers, integrating XML-based data delivery into their existing infrastructures and old processes risks cost efficiency, control and the scalability of operations,” said Scott Powell, Product Manager, Confluence. “This filing is significant because it demonstrates how new solutions can make XML a more efficient, scalable and accurate way for preparing, reviewing and delivering content.”
Confluence has been very involved in XML initiatives for the investment management industry. The firm served on the original Investment Company Institute (ICI) XBRL Working Group with representatives from the entire fund industry. As part of the SEC’s 2009 XBRL Voluntary Holdings filing program, Confluence’s Unity Holdings was used for the first successful filing, demonstrating the benefits of the source content tagging model. And for a 2007 Voluntary XBRL Risk/Return filing program, Confluence also provided a free software tool, Quick Tag™, which allowed users to tag risk/return summary information and create XBRL-formatted files.**
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