"The Insider by DFIN" is a series of video interviews featuring the latest trends, topics and key perspectives on the global capital markets.

Join DFIN Chief Client Experience Officer Jodi Sweeney as she shares her insights on transforming the client experience in this special edition of The Insider by DFIN.

Using our affordable financial reporting platform new ActiveDisclosure, Willis Towers Watson, was able to boost collaboration globally to streamline and accelerate regulatory filing.

Learn how our secure, collaborative platform helped them maximize productivity and overcome their reporting challenges.

While four in five (81%) business leaders in the UK and the US feel they are performing better than their industry’s average on ESG issues over the past two years, there is much less confidence around their organisations’ corporate governance. In contrast, less than 30% of executives feel confident they are outperforming their industry peers on governance issues, such as internal controls, lobbying and board composition.

Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Mike Crapo (R-ID), both senior members of the Senate Banking Committee, today introduced the Financial Data Transparency Act in the United States Senate, bringing this much-needed regulatory reform initiative one step closer to becoming law.

It’s been a long road. The legislation has been under consideration for a dozen years in one form or another; but last year, in a major step forward, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a version of the measure by an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 400-19.

New SuiteApp for financial reporting meets Oracle NetSuite SuiteCloud Platform development standards and best practices

CHICAGO – May 4, 2022 – Donnelley Financial Solutions (NYSE: DFIN), a leading risk and compliance company, today announced that its ActiveDisclosure solution has achieved ‘Built for NetSuite’ status. The new SuiteApp, built using the Oracle NetSuite SuiteCloud Platform, helps organizations accelerate financial and regulatory reporting through the entire lifecycle of their financial journey – from private company to IPO and beyond.

DFIN’s first quarter financial results, announced yesterday, indicate that our transformation into a software-centric company is shifting into high gear. Software sales represented 33% of total net sales in the quarter, the highest level in DFIN’s history. In addition, year-over-year sales growth for our software offerings was 15.8%, the fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit software sales growth.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reopened the comment period on proposed pay-versus-performance rules under the Dodd-Frank Act that would require disclosure of information about the relationship between executive compensation paid by a company and the company's financial performance. The SEC also considered adding new disclosure requirements in the final pay-versus-performance rules.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments to certain rules governing beneficial ownership reporting. The proposed amendments would modernize the filing deadlines for initial and amended beneficial ownership reports filed on Schedules 13D and 13G. This would be the first major update to this reporting since November 2021.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed new amendments to its rules on cybersecurity disclosures by public companies. Expanding on the SEC's previously issued interpretive guidance from 2018, the proposed rules would "strengthen investors' ability to evaluate public companies' cybersecurity practices and incident reporting.”  

Built from the ground up, ActiveDisclosure delivers secure, efficient financial reporting & SEC filing with a comprehensive network and unique infrastructure security controls in place.

Our systems, processes and experts leverage numerous tools to secure our clients data