Manage the production of shareholder reports and filings with confidence

This powerful shareholder reporting software improves your internal controls and reduces the risk of errors. Our intuitive automated financial reporting tool helps you manage complex data and content to create and file high-quality, consistent regulatory documents for investment companies. It’s the perfect tool for reducing manual errors, relieving regulatory pressure, and combatting inefficiencies in your current processes.

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SEC compliance software that scales with your company’s financial reporting ecosystem

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From pre-IPO to going public & beyond, facilitate your financial regulatory reporting and deal documents for mergers, spin-offs, S-1 filings and more.

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Annual & Quarterly Reporting

Reduce filing cycle time and ensure accurate financial disclosures for 10-Ks, 10-Qs, and more.

Sustainability

Centralize your data and simplify your sustainability reporting.

Proxy

Accelerate your proxy report with on demand design and automated workflows for shareholder communications and DEF 14A filings.


Beneficial Ownership

Digitally file Section 16, Form 144, and Schedule 13D & 13G forms with efficiency and accuracy

Future-proof with our SEC software & SEC reporting services

Get the financial reporting and SEC filing software your public company needs with unparalleled expert SEC services and responsive ongoing support from DFIN’s experts.

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DFIN University

Excel Linking

Preserve the one source of truth for your data with seamless Excel integration.

  • Change data in Excel, instantly refresh everywhere in your SEC reports
  • Create content presets, Snippets, to edit once and update universally
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Track Changes

  • Collaborate & manage changes in real time
  • Track who made edits & when
  • Display markups or a clean view
  • Accept or reject changes
  • Use integrated XBRL tagging & comments
  • SEC filing tools built for collaboration
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Advanced Editing

  • Modify headers, footers and page breaks
  • Input text across page types
  • Simplify formatting
  • View exports in multiple formats (Word, PDF, HTML)
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Support Binders

  • Notes and statuses for tie-outs
  • Support docs kept where you want, no uploading or moving required
  • Readable tie-out doc with easy-to-see labels
  • Auto-generated Table of Contents
  • Full, integrated tie-out view in dashboard
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iXBRL Tagging

Intelligent iXBRL tagging takes the complexity out of compliance with SEC regulations. Our compliant SEC reporting software for EDGAR filings ensures your financial statements will be tagged quickly and accurately, to meet your reporting requirements.

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Presentations

Quickly build polished, on-brand presentations and PowerPoint decks using your financial data—right within ActiveDisclosure.

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Health Checks

Health checks and validations ensure key SEC filing deadlines are not missed. Our SEC filing software keeps track of everything for you.

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DFIN University

ActiveDisclosure Customer Training Certifications

DFIN University is your learning gateway to mastering ActiveDisclosure. Gain expertise across key areas of our SEC financial reporting software and earn certifications to showcase your skills.

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Client experience is at the core of everything we do

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“ArcReporting is exciting for employees and prospective clients. They haven't experienced automated financial statements in the hedge fund space before.”


- Marcus Malley
Senior Managing Director at HedgeServ Limited

See how ArcReporting® meets all of your investment company financial reporting needs

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Automate

  • Automatically generate your document(s) with a single click of a button
  • Bulk calculate at the document or fund level with one click
  • Add bulk comments that sync across ArcReporting
  • Monitor calculation statuses for all your documents on one screen
  • Bulk generate PDFs or Word files based on template settings
  • Download generated documents and audit packages
  • Configure proofing and other triggers directly
     

Streamline

  • Ingest and Centralize data and content from different systems and sources
  • Eliminate manual processes with embedded workflow technology that ensures process consistency
  • Shared data and content across multiple documents and filings
  • Reduce production cycle time and risk of error
  • Straight Through Processing (STP) for improved efficiency
  • Customizable audit controls for increased accuracy
  • Integrate with other Arc Suite products

Navigate

  • Streamline financial reporting with software built for the industry, by industry experts
  • Access and review data via a simplified and intuitive user experience
  • Boost productivity with a dashboard view of reports and filings
  • Drive efficiency with built-in, customized audit- and exception-based reporting

Control

  • Maintain financial reports and data security with management oversight
  • Provide permission-based access to internal and external users
  • Schedule and track resources online
  • Leverage shared content, minimizing handoffs
  • Collaborate across multiple geographic locations
  • Built-in enterprise-grade security with enhanced IT standards

Produce

  • Automate the creation of print- and web-ready PDFs for shareholder reports, blacklined drafts and EDGAR HTML for regulatory filings
  • Eliminate manual processes with embedded workflow technology
  • Optimize the review, comment and approval process
  • Maintain accuracy throughout the production process

Implement

  • Onboard seamlessly with robotic process automation and Natural Language Processing, reducing costs and uncertainty
  • Create new reports in minutes
  • Automate internal control processes
  • Accelerate learning with in-app training

Comprehensive

Technology purpose-built to produce annual, semi-annual, ad hoc and quarterly reports for registered investment companies, private equity, hedge and alternative investment reporting.

Intuitive

A true cloud-based SaaS solution that is easy to use and allows for the efficient and accurate creation of automated financial statements and global regulatory reports.

Automated

The ability to produce automated, cover-to-cover PDFs in English plus 30 additional languages, blackline PDFs and EDGAR HTML.

Global

High-quality financial shareholder reporting in the U.S., Australia, Canada, U.K. (Bank of England), Ireland (Central Bank of Ireland) and Luxembourg (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier) that solves companies’ cross-border compliance challenges.

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Board of Directors

Members of our Board of Directors have guided the company based on their significant experience in board governance and disciplines that are key to operating a leading provider of software and technology-enabled financial regulatory and compliance solutions.

Daniel N. Leib

DFIN CEO and Board Member

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Richard L. Crandall

Richard L. Crandall

Chairman of the Board

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Luis Aguilar

 

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Juliet Ellis

 

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Gary G. Greenfield

 

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Lois Martin

 

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Chandar Pattabhiram

 

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Ayman Sayed

 

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Executive Leadership

These leaders set the overall strategy and direction of the company.

Jons Besch

Chief Operations & Production Officer

Global Operations

Andrea Aktan

SVP, Operations Strategy & Global Supply Chain

Kathleen Shelton

SVP, Operations Group

Current Role

Jons Besch is the Chief Operations & Production Officer at DFIN. His team is responsible for Professional Services across our C&CM client offerings as well as Global Operations for DFIN. The team drives value for shareholders, clients, and employees by simplifying and standardizing processes; applying technology to improve outcomes and ensuring that metrics are in place to make informed decisions.


Past Roles

Jons previously led Operations for the financial services and global outsourcing offerings of R.R. Donnelley (RRD), after having held various roles in engineering, sales, client services, operations and execution management for RRD.


Background

Jons received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned a Master of Business Administration from DePaul University.

Meet new electronic filing requirements with confidence

The SEC has created new rulings around the electronic submission of documents that were previously paper. Make the smooth transition with our Section 16, Form 144, and Schedule 13D & 13G reporting software that minimizes late filings and FINRA/SEC escalations.

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Secure, self-service Section 16, 
Form 144, and Schedule 13D & 13G

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Gain access to these form types standalone within AD

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Report equity ownership & changes to corporate securities electronically

  • SOC 2 Type II Audits
  • HITRUST Audits Reports
  • ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Certification
  • MFA & SSO Integration
  • AES 256-bit Encryption at Rest & in Transit
  • 3rd Party Penetration Testing
  • Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
  • Intrusion Prevention (IPS) and Detection (IDS) Systems

Experience the DFIN Tailored Shareholder Reports Difference

Impacting nearly 12,000 funds & ETFs and 32,000 share classes, the SEC's TSR rule presents significant operational changes to the industry. See how DFIN can optimize your TSR processes and reduce complexity for your organization today.

Experience expert service and industry-leading support — every step of the way

When you work with DFIN, you get:

People ready to help 24/7/365

Ongoing recommendations on SEC regulatory changes and industry best practices

A solution that incorporates the knowledge and experience of the largest filer to the SEC

SaaS solutions that allow IT maintenance and software updates to be managed entirely by the DFIN team

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