SEC Adopts Rule Amendments Requiring Exhibits to be Hyperlinked and Certain Filings to be Submitted in HTML Format
On March 1, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted rule amendments that will require issuers filing registration statements and periodic and current reports that are subject to the exhibit requirements codified in Item 601 of Regulation S-K, as well as those that file Forms F-10 or 20-F, to:
1. include a hyperlink to each exhibit listed in the exhibit index of these filings; and
2. submit these filings on EDGAR in HyperText Markup Language (“HTML”) format.