Articles by Dan DeFrancesco
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners' Interview: SS&C Advent
Dan DeFrancesco chats with Katherine Pearce about SS&C Advent being named as the Best Accounting System Provider at this year's Waters Rankings.
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners’ Interview: Eze Castle Integration
Dan DeFrancesco chats with Vinod Paul about ECI's win the in Best Cloud Infrastructure Provider category.
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners' Interview: IPC Systems
Dan DeFrancesco chats with Rajan Singh about IPC's Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider win.
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners’ Interview: Eze Software Group
Dan DeFrancesco chats with James Griffin about his firm's two wins at this year's Waters Rankings
IHS Markit's Latest WSO Integrates Trade Settlement, Offers Multi-Currency Functionality for Syndicated Loans Market
Head of WSO at IHS Markit discusses the enhancements made in version 12.2.1 of the platform.
Trump's Comments on Regulation Might Be His Most Ridiculous Yet ... Seriously
Calling for a moratorium on regulation in financial services is a bad idea, Dan says.
Redi Expands Data Center, Adds Staff in Hong Kong Office
Michael Rude, Redi's chief revenue officer, talks about the decision to add more support to the region.
Daiwa Securities Becomes Newest CLS Settlement Member
Japanese firm joins 65 other financial firms on CLS's settlement and risk mitigation system.
ITG Develops Brazil, Mexico Close Algorithms
New algos aimed at end-of-session liquidity.
Finra Fines Deutsche Bank Securities $12.5 Million for Significant Supervisory Failures Around Research, Trading-Related Information
German bank subsidiary repeatedly ignored red flags and internal warnings from firm's compliance department around its supervision of internal communication.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 29: LedgerX's Paul Chou and Zach Dexter Talk Bitfinex Hack
Dan is joined by two bitcoin specialists to discuss the latest hack suffered by the cryptocurrency.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Reference Data Provider — Thomson Reuters
Another Waters Rankings means yet another win for Thomson Reuters in the best reference data provider category. The two have become synonymous with each other, as this marks the fifth straight year that the New York-based data giant has made it to the…
Cryptocurrencies Exchange Bitfinex Reports Hack, Over $60 Million in Bitcoin Reported Stolen
A Bitfinex spokesperson said 119,756 bitcoin were stolen in the hack that took place Tuesday.
Elliptic Adds LexisNexis Risk Solutions' Data to Bitcoin Transaction Monitoring, Compliance Products
LexisNexis Bridger Insight XG platform, including its WorldCompliance database, will be added to Elliptic's products.
Going Public: Firms Embrace Public Clouds
What will it take to get financial firms to completely buy in to public clouds?
Barclays Africa Executive: Blockchain Offers African Banks Much Needed Scale
Firm's CIO for CIB discusses unique use cases for distributed ledger technologies on the continent.
Alain Miquelon Steps Down as CEO of Montreal Exchange, Group Head of Derivatives
Luc Fortin, managing director of derivatives trading, will serve as interim president and CEO of MX.
Calypso Technology Joins Wall Street Blockchain Alliance
Firm joins industry group focused on usage of distributed ledger in financial services.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Low-Latency Data Feed Provider — ICE Data Services
ICE Data Services wins the category for the second straight year.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Accounting System Provider — SS&C Advent
SS&C Advent wins category for second straight year.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Data Analytics Provider — FactSet
FactSet gets its first win in the category.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Corporate Actions Solution Provider — Thomson Reuters
A dynasty has begun to form in the corporate actions solution provider category at the Waters Rankings as Thomson Reuters with its DataScope for Corporate Actions solution has won the category for the third year in a row. Phil Cole, global head of…
DTCC Appoints Lisa Pollina to Board
Pollina most recently was vice chairman for RBC Capital Markets.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider — IPC Systems
IPC Systems wins for the sixth consecutive year.