2025: A Look at What’s Ahead in Capital Markets, Regulatory Compliance, and Cybersecurity Series

The regulatory environment for 2025 is being shaped by shifting policies under a new presidential administration and evolving global frameworks. As companies navigate these, understanding the compliance trends and preparing for potential changes will be critical to their success.

2025: A Look at What’s Ahead in Capital Markets, Regulatory Compliance, and Cybersecurity Series

Cybersecurity continues to be a critical focus for companies in 2025, with emerging threats such as AI-driven cybercrime and supply chain vulnerabilities testing organizational resilience.

In recent years, new technologies have increased the demand for ESG reporting and automation tools have transformed financial reporting. Increasingly, companies are looking to leverage new technologies to reshape their data analytics, with an emphasis on maintaining compliance and increasing transparency.

Wilson Sonsini, a global law firm, ushering promising and innovative companies through their business life cycle, needed a time- and resource-intensive process to meet tight deadlines.

They leverage DFIN’s ActiveDisclosure platform to increase the operational efficiency of OneStream’s IPO process which provides an ecosystem of digital workflows, allowing the attorneys to securely share documents for real-time reviews and comments by clients, bankers, auditors, and other stakeholders.

DFIN achieved record software solutions net sales of $82.2 million, a year-over-year increase of 12.3%, or (13.6% on an organic basis), in our 3^rd quarter 2024 earnings results, announced this week.  Software solutions net sales accounted for 45.8% of total net sales, up from 40.7% in the third quarter of 2023, and the highest percentage of our sales mix attributable to software solutions achieved to date.

OneStream, in collaboration with Wilson Sonsini and DFIN subject matter experts, used ActiveDisclosure financial reporting and SEC filing software to optimize IPO process efficiency.

The European Single Electronic Format (ESEF) is the electronic reporting format in which issuers on EU regulated markets must prepare their annual financial reports. Listed entities in Europe must file their annual report in the digital European Single Electronic Format (ESEF).

In the latest White Paper, ESEF Annual Reporting Inline XBRL Explained, DFIN explains how using iXBRL formatting will improve data quality, accessibility and continue the modernisation of financial and sustainability reporting.

In it, you’ll learn:

Artificial intelligence and AI tools are revolutionizing industries, including the financial industry. Every day, it seems as if a new AI tool is announced that promises to streamline and simplify, so business can move at a faster pace. While technologies are still in development, there are clear benefits to using AI in the finance industry. Organizations that understand the power of AI for financial reporting, including the outlook for the future, can identify and implement the right solutions.

STAAR Surgical was successfully using ActiveDisclosure for financial reporting and SEC filing, and greatly benefited from the easy-to use and time-saving collaboration it enabled among its financial team. They wanted to experience similar benefits during their proxy disclosure projects involving legal staff, financial staff and others. 

As Opera continues to grow and its finance and reporting team is facing an ever-expanding scope of responsibilities and tight deadlines, they needed a future-proof software solution for SEC filings and ESG reporting.