Mergers and acquisitions make news headlines all the time. While many think they know what these deals are, there are several kinds of business transactions that fall under the label of 'mergers and acquisitions'.

Catch up on the different types of mergers and acquisitions, discover why they happen, and learn about the various components to these deals. Last, find out the best way to stay organized when preparing for a merger or acquisition.

Businesspeople have been so conditioned over the years to see the value in Big Data that they often overlook the risks lurking in all that rich information.

There’s a good reason for that: Big Data drives so much business activity today. It informs product development, marketing, recruitment and host of important business decisions. When fed into powerful analytics and AI systems, it can yield insights that make executives smarter and help a company innovate.

The term dark data doesn't refer to data that's dark or harmful — in fact, it’s quite the opposite. This term reflects data that organizations collect but do not use, such as data they're required to store for compliance purposes. While dark data is benign and not harmful, there are reasons to be concerned about it.

Read on to learn about the risks and how to protect dark data, plus how to find and identify this data within your organization.

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

In this Insider, Dannie Combs, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Donnelley Financial Solutions, discusses the state of security in 2023 and what companies should know about protecting their data.

Five Security Issues to Focus on in 2023

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

In the second part of this Security Insider series, Dannie Combs, CISO at DFIN, dives into the complexities of new cyber threats and how DFIN’s advanced security technologies help future-proof your business against bad actors.

Find out why Goldenhill International chose Venue by DFIN as partner to accelerate their clients’ M&A deals.

“After years of working together with DFIN, they continue to be our preferred VDR provider not only because of Venue’s unique capabilities and modern interface, but also their excellent customer support and commitment to continuously innovating their solution to match the needs and solve the challenges of their clients.”

Discover how DFIN helped La Jolla Pharmaceutical, a provider of innovative therapies that improve patient outcomes, securely store and share data for fundraising, licensing, partnering, and M&A with Venue corporate repositories and virtual data rooms.

DFIN’s strategies to protect your company’s dark data

Dannie Combs contributed an article for Cyber Defense Magazine to highlight the risk that storing dark data (information that an organization collects, stores for compliance or other reasons, and then doesn’t use, through neglect, lack of interest, or need) poses to a company.

DFIN’s third quarter 2022 financial results, released this morning, demonstrate that our continuing transformation into a software-centric company is going strong.

In a difficult market, with IPO and M&A activity down significantly, we achieved higher margins and made solid progress toward our goal of software accounting for 55% to 60% of DFIN’s total revenue by 2026.