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.

Dimon Hates New Regs

3/31/2011
The JP Morgan chief criticized the CFTC swaps crackdown and Dodd-Frank in no uncertain terms.

DTCC And SIFMA Release Report Identifying Opportunities To Mitigate Risks In Processing MMIs

3/31/2011
DTCC and SIFMA formed the MMI Blue Sky Task Force in October 2009 to review the functioning of the MMI settlement system following the financial crisis.

Vivisimo Unveils Web 3.0 Customer Experience Optimization Platform

3/30/2011
The CXO personal workspace platform capitalizes on information generated by groups of people, and in way that is indicative of Web 3.0, learns the context of a question about a specific person and pulls the relevant data out.

Kenmar Group Selects GlobeOp For Managed Account Fund Administration, Risk, Managed Services

3/29/2011
Kenmar's CLariTy Managed Account & Analytics Platform is comprised of 40 separately managed accounts.

BT Announces New Managed Secure Messaging Services For Financial Services Community

3/28/2011
The service is designed to meet the security requirements of banks, clearing houses and securities depositories as well as corporate treasurers.

What Email? For Goldman Sachs, Voicemail Is Still Best

3/25/2011
Lloyd Blankfein told jurors at the insider trading trial of Raj Rajaratnam, that he sometimes does not read his e-mail and prefers instead to listen to voice mail.

Marathon Asset Management Selects SimCorp For Investment Management System

3/24/2011
The firm, which has $53 billion in assets under management, will use the system to support its portfolio accounting operations serving traditional and alternative funds.

E*Trade Launches New Facebook-Style Online Investment Community

3/23/2011
The site allows investors to see other E*Trade clients' integrated account data as well as their trading performance and account activity.

Orange Business Services Installs New Turnkey Trading Foors In China

3/21/2011
China Minsheng Banking Corporation and Evergrowing Bank have used Trading Solutions to design and deploy entirely new trading floors in their respective Shanghai offices.

New Technologies To Stop Insider Trading

3/21/2011
With the biggest insider trading trial in history currently under way, Wall Street firms are ramping up their technology to try to prevent market abuses before it's too late.

GFI To Provide OTC Energy Data Via GlobalView's MarketView Solutions

3/21/2011
The data is sourced directly from GFI's electronic trading platforms for the energy markets, EnergyMatch Europe and EnergyMatch.

youDevise and First Coverage Merge to Form Global Trade Idea Network for Institutional Investors

3/18/2011
youDevise and First Coverage market online services that enable institutional investors to receive short- and long-term trade ideas from their brokerage firms.

Wall Street Has Its Very Own WikiLeaks, And It Isn't Pretty

3/17/2011
As the Galleon trial unfolds in a lower Manhattan courtroom, prosecutors have been playing a series of secretly taped phone conversations made by the FBI.

U.S. Banks Wildly Unprepared For Japan-Type Disaster

3/17/2011
A large number of organizations are still not confident that their data will be restored completely within hours of a disaster, according to a survey.

Finance Professionals Get To Make Own Videos Via Thomson Reuters Platform

3/16/2011
As buy-side professionals get inundated with an increasing barrage of research and information about the markets, they are turning to multimedia and mobile solutions, according to Thomson Reuters.

OMG And Enterprise Data Management Council To Develop Data Standards for Financial Reform

3/15/2011
The common standard will help financial organizations transform their data into "Actionable Intelligence" to support systemic risk assessment and analytics.

UAT Launches iPerx To Boost Commission Recapture Programs

3/11/2011
Patented iPerX Automates Trading Process and Increases Recapture Rates to 75%.

Global Index Provider FTSE Launches iPhone App

3/10/2011
With FTSE's streaming service, continuous changes to the underlying stock prices are automatically captured in the real-time index value.

London Stock Exchange Selects Solace Systems For Messaging Technology

3/9/2011
The Solace solution provides the persistent messaging and buffering layer between the real-time trading system and the business-critical downstream systems used for surveillance, data warehousing, post trade processing and billing.

'Insider Trading' Trial Of The Century Starts Today

3/8/2011
A judge began vetting potential jurors today in the insider trading trial of hedge-fund executive Raj Rajaratnam.

SunGard Launches Regulatory And Risk Consulting Practice

3/7/2011
Spending on technology will be largely devoted to addressing regulatory requirements in 2011, but vendors must help to identify and articulate other strategic and business value these IT investments offer, TowerGroup analyst points out.

IPC Launches Trading Communications And Applications Platform

3/4/2011
Unigy speeds collaboration between traders and the entire trade support team across middle and back offices, according to IPC.

Advent's Tamale Introduces New Compliance Features

3/3/2011
Advent recently introduced a Broker Evaluation module in Tamale RMS that can be used to document meetings, correspondence, research and other services provided by brokers used in making investment decisions.

SEC Considers New Alternative To Credit Ratings

3/3/2011
The SEC may propose dropping credit rating agencies for a new method for evaluating their portfolios.

Exclusive: 2011 IT Spending to Rise 6%; It's The Year of 'Compliance And The Cloud'

3/3/2011
Capital markets firms will spend just over $44 billion on technology globally in 2011, up from $42 billion in 2010 and $39.7 billion in 2009, according to a soon-to-be-released study from Aite Group.

Tablet Wars: iPad Vs Android Motorola Xoom

3/2/2011
Apple will unveil the iPad2 today. The Motorola Xoom tablet is pricier at $800. But what are the differences with the iPad?