ESMA’s 2025 Corporate Reporting Priorities – 5 Things You Need to Know

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has outlined its corporate reporting priorities for 2025, with a strong emphasis on improving transparency, consistency, and quality. These priorities address financial reporting, sustainability disclosures, and digital reporting under evolving regulatory frameworks. If you’re responsible for corporate reporting, this summary will help you understand what’s expected and how to prepare.

Preflight – Your New Tool to Ensure Every InDesign Report is ESEF Compatible. Always.

If you work on corporate reports, you know the pressure: every detail needs to be perfect. A small mistake could mean not just extra revision rounds but potentially hefty fines and damage to the company’s reputation. In report compliant production, every step counts, and no one wants errors slipping through the cracks ahead of submitting a final report to regulation bodies.

Recording: InCopy Kickoff and Walkthrough

This session was designed to guide you through the essentials of InCopy, ensuring you’re fully prepared for the reporting season. We also shared our top tips and best practices for working effectively in CtrlPrint.

What is ESEF (European Single Electronic Reporting)?

When you operate a company in Europe, you must familiarise yourself with ESEF. The European Single Electronic Reporting (ESEF) is a digital reporting requirement your publicly traded company must conform to.

ESEF Highlights – ESEF Reporting Manual Updated by ESMA

As the next reporting season approaches, ESMA published an updated ESEF Reporting Manual on 11th July 2024. This updated Reporting Manual incorporates the proposed 2024 amendment to the RTS on ESEF, reflecting the latest changes to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Taxonomy published in 2023 and 2024, as well as updates to the XBRL specifications. ESMA encourages issuers to adopt these changes as soon as possible, but no later than for financial reporting periods starting on or after 1 January 2024.