Starting a business development company can be rewarding and is a great way to make a positive contribution. A business development company (BDC) invests in smaller private or public companies to support business growth and help create jobs. If you don’t know how to start a business development company, there are certain steps you'll need to follow.

Read on for steps to starting a BDC, including BDC filing requirements.

On December 23, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Financial Data Transparency Act, or FDTA, into law. With a stroke of a pen, Biden ended a long era of inefficient, document-based government reporting in the financial arena.

Learn more about the FDTA, the timeline for adoption and implementation, and the benefits.

On April 28, the SEC announced it had reopened the comment period for its proposed amendments to the Beneficial Ownership Forms, which require any investor who beneficially owns more than five percent of a covered class of equity securities to report such ownership by publicly filing either a Schedule 13D or a Schedule 13G.

Could Europe’s loss be America’s gain? Big name companies across the pond have raised eyebrows by choosing New York-based stock exchanges rather than European counterparts.

Software once again was a standout performer in DFIN’s quarterly earnings results, released this week.

Against a backdrop of macroeconomic headwinds and market volatility, with IPO transactions at near record-lows and M&A activity far below historical levels, we achieved positive momentum in our software offerings, delivering year-over-year net sales growth of nearly 4% on an organic basis. Software solutions net sales represented 35.3% of total net sales, an increase of approximately 220 basis points from last year’s software sales mix.

Featured in Strategic CHRO, Dawnet Beverley, Executive Vice President of Global Capital Markets at DFIN, shares her insights on treating people with kindness in the workplace and how it can impact your employees and your business.

Momentum around the Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA) continues to grow. Last month, our team traveled to Washington, D.C. for the RegTech 2023 Data Summit. As the title sponsor, DFIN was well represented and had the pleasure of leading many FDTA-themed discussions.

In this video, Craig Clay, President of Global Capital Markets, DFIN, discusses how the Force Management Command Center allowed the company to be initially all virtual and then hybrid, while delivering engaging content in one location, providing the sales team with necessary resources.

In this video, Craig Clay, President of Global Capital Markets, DFIN, highlights DFIN’s five-year transformation journey from RR Donnelley’s legacy of print to the company’s strategic focus on software.

Amidst economic uncertainty, civil unrest, the pandemic, and more, DFIN has been able to create sales success in software utilizing Force Management through the following avenues:

DFIN Drives Revenue after Digitizing Its Product-Line

“Force Management gave us a galvanizing moment to memorialize our purpose…It's a framework we use with almost everything within the sales motion.”

- Craig Clay, President of Global Capital Markets, DFIN

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