Articles by Dan DeFrancesco
Icap to Merge EBS and BrokerTec
The FX and fixed income trading platforms will be combined to form EBS-BrokerTec
B&Z Global Strategies Taps MDX Technology
Brazilian multi-strategy investment fund to use MDXT Collaborate
SS&C Acquires DST Global Solutions
The deal will be worth $95 million in cash.
Linedata Announces Enhancements to its Admin Edge Platform
Linedata Reporting will power upgrades to web functionality.
Cloud as a Business Enabler in the Capital Markets
Bloomberg's Brian Cunningham discusses his firm's cloud strategy.
Pershing Has Eye on Client Onboarding for 2015
Pershing's CIO talks about some of the trends he has his eyes on
Azure Disruptions Show Firms Need a Plan for When Outages Occur
Abacus CTO Viktor Tadijanovic discusses having proper contingencies in place for a service interruption
Goldman Sachs Invests in Big Data Analytics Start-Up
Goldman becomes the largest strategic investor in Kensho
BSE to Implement Solarflare Technology
OpenOnload and Solarflare Precision Time to be used on BSE.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Data Provider to the Buy Side—Rimes Technologies
“Dominant” is probably the best adjective to describe Rimes Technologies’ relationship with the best data provider category at the Buy-Side Technology Awards. The New York-based vendor is undefeated since the category’s inception in 2007, making this the…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best CEP Platform—Deltix
In the brief history of the best complex-event processing (CEP) platform category at the Buy-Side Technology Awards, One Market Data has ruled the roost, winning two of the three years since the category’s inception in 2011. This year, Deltix has knocked…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Outsourcing Provider to the Buy Side—Eagle Investment Systems
First introduced to the line-up in 2012, the best outsourcing provider category has never had a back-to-back winner. Fittingly, like a firm going through a series of vendors looking for the right solution, no company has held the top spot for more than a…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Pricing/Valuation Service—Markit
It might not be a complete sweep, but Markit’s success in the Buy-Side Technology Awards’ best pricing/valuation service category is about as close as one can get. For the fifth straight year and for the seventh time in eight years, Markit’s Pricing and…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Data Management Product—Markit
How does one stay on top of their game? Markit EDM might be best suited to answer that question, although Rimes Technologies might also have some advice on that topic, given that both firms remain undefeated in their respective categories since the…
Emerging Exchanges: Partnering for Power
Exchanges in emerging markets are teaming up with developed exchanges for technology and knowledge.
SEC Votes to Strengthen Systems Compliance and Integrity
Regulation Systems Compliance and Integrity requires entities to have a plan for when systems fail.
Microsoft Azure Suffers Interruption
For the second time in less than four months Microsoft's cloud-computing platform falters.
Pricing Service Offered by Icap Information Services
IIS to partner with Prism Valuation.
Ashworth to Serve as Caplin CEO
Former CEO and founder Paul Caplin will remain on Board as an executive chairman.
Sefcon V: Tech's Impact on SEFs Keeps Growing
Sefcon V looks at the impact technology has had on SEFs
Abacus To Include Varonis Software in Private Cloud
Varonis' platform handles unstructured data.
Deutsche Bank Appoints Rangaswami CDO
JP Rangaswami to serve as firm's first-ever chief data officer.
Canada Latest to Adopt LEI
The number of markets adopting the legal entity identifier (LEI) continues to grow.
Eagle Partners with Interactive Data for Solvency II Compliance
Interactive Data will provide pricing and reference data to Eagle's European insurance clients.