Dan DeFrancesco

Finance Editor at Business Insider

Dan is an associate finance editor at Business Insider, based in New York. He covers financial technology and market structure. Whether it's a startup looking to disrupt the way Wall Street trades or a big bank hoping to keep pace with the evolving markets, Dan focuses on how financial firms both big and small look to leverage interesting, innovative technology. His coverage includes artificial intelligence and machine learning, the public cloud, alternative data, and the struggles firms sometimes face when trying to use the often complex technology. Before joining Business Insider, Dan wrote about risk management in derivatives markets for Risk.net and fintech for WatersTechnology. Prior to that, he spent two years at The Journal News, a daily newspaper based in White Plains, N.Y.