There Are No Shortcuts with SEC’s New Pay Versus Performance Rule

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new Pay Versus Performance rule is broad and deep, including a highly technical regulation that demands close attention. Shortcuts are not an option.

Fortunately, the SEC has issued a helpful FAQ that answers a lot of the questions companies might have.

DFIN Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results

DFIN’s Earnings Report Spotlights Software Transformation

Donnelley Financial Solutions’ 4Q22 and FY22 earnings, released this week, showcase our progress in becoming a software-centric company. We are on track to meet our goal of deriving 55% to 60% of total sales from software by 2026.

For the full year, we achieved record software solutions net sales of $279.6 million. Software solutions net sales were nearly 34% of our full-year net sales, up from 27% in 2021 and just 14% in 2016, the year we were spun off from our parent company. Amazing progress.

Taking a Company Private: Benefits, Methods & Strategies

As companies and management look to re-organize and restructure, raise new capital and build long term value without the scrutiny of the public eye and pressure of public reporting cycles, they often will look to go private. Some companies may have been public for decades, while others have only been in the public markets a short time. Discover the advantages of being a private company instead of a public company, signs it might be a good idea, and the path to going private when you're a publicly owned company.

The Risks of Dark Data Are Rising

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.

What is Dark Data? How to Manage and Protect It

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 Is Your Data Safe? Don’t Be So Sure.

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