Profile of Melanie Rodier

Senior Editor and Head of Video Member Since: 5/8/2014
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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.

South Africa's PIC Live on Charles River Investment Management System

11/25/2009
PIC has become one of the largest fixed income and money market investment managers in Africa, with approximately $100 billion in assets under management.

BGCantor Market Data Partners With Thomas Ho on Real-Time Analytics

11/24/2009
New analytics products are designed for traders, portfolio managers, risk analysts and market professionals who require fast, flexible analytical tools to gain market insights and support their investment strategies.

Parametric Portfolio Associates Selects Fidessa LatentZero’s Minerva OEMS

11/23/2009
Minerva OEMS is a fully integrated front-office position analysis and trading solution that provides support for all asset classes, including OTC derivatives, with real-time positions and P&L, integrated market data, order management and trading, with integrated compliance in a single application.

StreamBase Connects to Chi-X Canada

11/23/2009
The extended connectivity offers a new venue on which StreamBase users can trade Canadian equities.

UBS Launches Algo Trading in Hot Spot Brazil

11/17/2009
The Brazilian market has become increasingly popular for US and European firms, as investors seek to tap into the country’s abundant investment opportunities.

SunGard Adds Trading Support for Xetra International Market

11/17/2009
Xetra International Market (XIM) is a pan-European blue-chip trading platform recently launched by Deutsche Börse. It provides members in 19 countries with trading for European blue-chip stocks.

Risk Management Technology Now Key Part of Prime Brokerages Offering

11/16/2009
Many low-cost systems providers are now coming to the market with sophisticated technology that was once inaccessible to smaller mid-tier hedge funds.

Gravitas Launches Cloud Computing For Alternative Asset Managers

11/16/2009
Gravitas’ cloud services allows small and medium sized hedge funds and other trading firms the ability to help close the technology gap between small and large firms without buying servers and incurring other upfront capital costs, the company says.

Bloomberg Enhances CMBS Tools

11/13/2009
Blooomberg has introduced new capabilities that allow users to view more information around an issue based on detailed economic and interest rate conditions.

New SEC Zeal Helped Dismantle Hedge Fund Insider Trading Scheme

11/10/2009
The SEC is under tremendous pressure because of its failure with Madoff, says Larry Tabb, founder of Tabb Group. "We'll be seeing more fines and more criminal proceedings as the SEC tries to re-establish its reputation."

Money Manager, Ex-SEC Lawyer Pleads Guilty In Dreier Case

11/10/2009
A New Jersey money manager, who worked as a lawyer at the SEC in the 1980s, has admitted to helping disgraced lawyer Marc Dreier carry out a scheme to attempt to sell $44.7 million in fake promissory notes by impersonating people at a hedge fund and a pension plan.

StreamBase Connects to Pure Trading

11/9/2009
Pure Trading, a facility of CNSX Markets, is a continuous auction market with a high capacity and low-latency trading environment.

Calypso System Integrates With Bloomberg Server API Via Sky Road

11/5/2009
Bloomberg's real-time data is now available to Calypso Technology and Sky Road joint clients.