How We Helped a Company Secure Its Valuable Intellectual Property While Raising Capital

Discover how DFIN helped Svante, an innovator making commercial-scale carbon capture and removal a reality, securely store and share sensitive information with deal stakeholders to close $420M in Series D and E financing.

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.

What Are Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As)?

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.

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.