Form 144 is a special form that must be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) when an individual who owns unregistered shares plans to sell these shares. The form must be filed by the time the individual places a sell order for those shares. What's more, the SEC made recent changes that impact Form 144.

Read on to learn about SEC Form 144, new filing and reporting requirements, and tips to make the filing process easier.

In this SEC Insider, Heather Marshall, Senior Director, Executive Compensation & Board Advisory from WTW; and two executives from DFIN, Ron Schneider, Director, Corporate Governance Services, and Sean Lively, Group Product Manager for ActiveDisclosure, discuss the new SEC rules on Pay vs. Performance and how companies can prepare to address them.

Host Dana Barrett and these experts discuss how companies can use their own data to tell a compelling company story, and what steps are needed to prepare for 2023.

In this episode, we’ll examine:

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.

Discover how DFIN helped Virax Biolabs, a newly public biotech company focused on the detection of immune responses to viral diseases, streamline their SEC filing process and boost productivity with ActiveDisclosure.

As our readers know, DFIN is committed to providing helpful and actionable insights on the latest regulatory developments. Today, we want to call your attention to the Form 13F amendments, which went into effect on EDGAR on January 3, 2023.

 The following new items are optional and should only be reported if applicable.

"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.

Dawnet Beverley, EVP of Global Capital Markets at DFIN, sat down with Dave Eddleman, Principal at the Alexander Group and shared some trends DFIN is seeing in the financial market, including:

• How people view themselves and expect you as the employer to view them
• How digital transformation is impacting organizations and the effect it has on customers
• The financial vehicles that emerged that helped shape organizations

According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), when a Foreign Private Issuer (FPI) that has listed its securities in the United States, the FPI becomes subject to reporting obligations under Section 13 of the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) – FPIs have two primary reporting obligations: 1.) filing an Annual Report on Form 20‑F within four months after fiscal year end, as required by Exchange Act Rule 13a‑1; and 2.) furnishing reports on Form 6‑K from time to time, as required by Exchange Act Rule 13a‑16