JSE, Africa Aims to Attract Global Investors Through X-Filing Platform Powered by IRIS iFILE TM The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), South Africa, is the largest stock exchange in Africa with more than 400 listed companies and a combined market capitalization of over $182 billion. In 2008, in a pioneering move, the exchange mandated XBRL based regulatory reporting for listed companies through the X-filing platform. The main objective of the platform was to offer all stakeholders better access to financial information. Challenges One of the main challenges JSE faced was the lack of a financial reporting standard which could be followed across all the industries and companies listed with the exchange. JSE also did not have a way to capture the data of all the companies electronical

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