Profile of Melanie Rodier
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Melanie Rodier has worked as a print and broadcast journalist for over 10 years, covering business and finance, general news, and film trade news. Prior to joining Wall Street & Technology in April 2007, Melanie lived in Paris, where she worked for the International Herald Tribune, and Rome, where she wrote for Reuters and Screen International, a film trade publication. Melanie was born in London, and graduated from Oxford University where she studied Spanish and Italian. She is also a fluent French speaker.
Articles by Melanie Rodier
posted in March 2010
3/31/2010
The new platform enables clients to get self monitoring alerts for exceptional conditions with multiple levels of severity; real-time information on strategy progress and performance and enhanced stability, redundancy, and recovery framework.
3/30/2010
ASSET4, which was acquired by Thomson Reuters in November 2009, has developed the world's largest database of transparent, objective and auditable ESG information covering over 3,000 publicly listed companies worldwide, as well as a variety of other entities including countries, local authorities, state-owned companies and supranational entities.
3/29/2010
With this enhancement, TradeFlow from Fiserv can automatically identify trades eligible for CLS settlement and eliminate the need to work with custodians for exception management.
3/29/2010
As firms search for stability in their technology partners, larger vendors have the edge. But eventually smaller, innovative providers will make a comeback.
3/26/2010
Despite disagreement on the actual definition of 'cloud computing,' capital markets firms increasingly are turning to the technology to achieve scale, cut costs and improve time to market. But not everything about the cloud is white and fluffy.
3/26/2010
While brokerage optionsXpress has embraced virtualization, don't tell EVP Ben Stein that the firm is using a cloud.
3/26/2010
The Boston Options Exchange's decision to move to a software-as-a-service billing solution was chiefly driven by its need to free up resources to tackle industry initiatives.
3/26/2010
Marc Chaikin, who developed the first real-time analytics workstation for stock traders and portfolio managers, talks to WS&T about his latest venture and how he is using the cloud to deliver data to investors' smartphones.
3/26/2010
Don't get left behind! Just about everyone - and we do mean everyone - is tweeting nowadays. Jon Stewart discusses the trend in this clip from the Daily Show...
3/26/2010
InRush 10G provides significant latency and throughput advantages as well as adding support for dual 10Gbit Ethernet market data connections.
3/24/2010
RealTick users can access Nomura's latest ModelEx suite of algorithms, Smart Router and dark crossing platform NX, as well as make use of Nomura's direct market access, Program Trading and Worked Order capabilities for U.S., European and Asian equity execution.
3/22/2010
An increasing number of investors are seeking advice during the troubled economy, and automation will remain critical to firms' profitability and productivity, according to Sungard, which has identified "Ten Trends for 2010 in Wealth Management."
3/22/2010
The MCX is India's leading commodity exchange, and the NSE is one of the highest volume futures and options exchanges in the world. CQG already has connectivity to the National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX) and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).
3/19/2010
Two former computer programmers at Bernie Madoff's firm have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Manhattan, bringing to five the number of Madoff aides who have been arrested since the scandal began to unfold 15 months ago.
3/19/2010
Here's a catchy Funny or Die video about Bernie Madoff as he whiles away his days in prison..."Hey Bernie! Why Did You Do Me So Bad? With All Of Our Cash...Turned Me Into Trash..."
3/18/2010
OmniumAccess provides clients with direct access to their data and the processes that support their entire post-trade lifecycle.
3/17/2010
Verticlear plans to release additional solutions that improve on legacy data models and provide a better framework for brokers to integrate with downstream data systems.
3/17/2010
The algorithms are built to address two features coveted by algorithmic traders: ease of use in terms of switching seamlessly between working algorithms, and the ability to have more control over the algorithm's execution logic.
3/16/2010
The GoldenSource Market Data Solution unifies traditional reference data with more time-critical market data and offers increased data quality, consistency and transparency across the investment process, the vendors says.
3/16/2010
CQG is a provider of integrated global market data, low-latency trade routing, and advanced technical analysis software, while MathWorks is a developer of mathematical computing software.
3/15/2010
Areas of innovation include central clearing of OTC derivatives, risk management and increasing transparency and efficiency, according to an ISITC survey.
3/12/2010
Vendor risk is top of the mind for most Wall Street firms these days. In this video clip, Larry Tabb, CEO and founder of TABB Group, tells us how the credit crisis is changing the vendor landscape as financial organizations seek more stable larger vendors to align with. Still, when the market recovers, we will start to see more innovation, particularly from smaller independent vendors, Tabb says.
3/12/2010
The London-based think-tank, which has backing from 19 financial institutions, provides training, scholarship and thought leadership on financial regulation.
3/11/2010
The new Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure act recently went into effect-but not without controversy. On a recent episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart laid out both what's wrong with American consumers and with credit card companies.
3/11/2010
Aspire Performance Reporting service now deployed for 12,000 financial advisors and nearly seven million clients.
3/10/2010
Largest independent Brazilian brokerage integrates the Progress Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform following demand from clients for custom strategies, Progress says.
3/9/2010
LinkedFA, which is compliant with FINRA's supervision and record keeping regulatory requirements, allows financial advisors, registered representatives, registered investment advisors, insurance advisors and CPAs to interact with investors.
3/9/2010
Post-crisis, Wall Street firms are paying closer attention than ever before to vendor risk when choosing their technology partners.
3/8/2010
Trading floor technology expert team to bring advanced IP turrets to multi-location broker dealer.
3/5/2010
Speaking to a gathering of hundreds of students at the University of Washington, Ballmer said: "I'll know we've succeeded with this aspect of the cloud the day we all agree that the virtual interaction through the cloud is as good as being here."
3/5/2010
In this clip from the UK version of The Office, David Brent gives a stomach churning turn as a motivational speaker...
3/4/2010
Integrated into the WebCenter360 banking suite, Highline Financial will provide tools that will enable investors to more easily analyze a bank's performance via a dashboard setup.
3/4/2010
The latest FMO release features improved-real time and historic reporting of fund performance across multiple prime brokers and custodians to manage counterparty risk and provide clients additional process transparency.
3/3/2010
FINRA recently issued brokers with new guidelines regarding communications with the public through social networking sites. In this video, Larry Tabb, CEO and founder of TABB Group, outlines what policies and procedures financial firms should have in place to communicate with investors while staying on top of the newest trends in social media.
3/3/2010
Solution for organizations to link security operations with enterprise risk management in cloud, mobile and on-premise environments.
3/2/2010
A Thomson Reuters and Lepus survey of 100 buy- and sell-side firms revealed that more than three quarters of participants (77%) intend to increase spending on projects that address data quality and consistency issues.
3/1/2010
Hana Daetoo Securities is the investment banking arm of the Hana Financial Group, which owns Hana Bank, the third largest bank by asset value in Korea.
3/1/2010
The research group will focus on the media, cable, satellite, and telecom industries and assist institutional clients in making strategic investment decisions.
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