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.

(Some) brokerages are finally getting into YouTube (video)

10/29/2008
Entertainment and consumer product companies have been dabbling in social media since at least 2005. But until now, financial firms had been slow to react.

Three weeks on, how is the bailout going? (audio)

10/28/2008
Three weeks after the $700 billion bailout package, big name banks are finally getting their money, while a number of smaller regional banks have also signed up for federal cash. Economist Doug Elmendorf at the Brookings Institutions takes stock of the bailout and talks about how he expects banks to react to their cash injection, in a Marketplace segment from American Public Media.

Content Analytics for Individual Investors

10/27/2008
As we continue to anxiously follow the wildly fluctuating stock market, YellowBrix, a provider of content analytics, announced the release of RightTrade, a service that makes predictions before the market opens each day and tracks the real-time sentiment of any publicly traded company.

UMAs Continue to Grow in Turbulent Financial Markets

10/24/2008
Amid the worst market turmoil in a generation, high-net-worth investors are increasingly entrusting their long-term wealth to unified managed accounts.

Merlin Securities upgrades reporting platform to include MSCI Barra’s risk model data

10/22/2008
Available data will now include measures of VAR as well as stock-specific risk and overall risk.

Tervela Offers New Integrated Options Solution

10/22/2008
The program can be customized to meet immediate market data distribution, options market making, automated trading and co-location requirements while laying a scalable foundation for the future, Tervela says.

Onset Technology Launches SmartPhone Compliance Tool

10/22/2008
Employing a lexicon-based system, METAmessage ACT monitors words, patterns and strings for sensitive content transmitted via wireless email, SMS, personal BlackBerry mail, BlackBerry PIN-to-PIN and instant messaging.

How to build an IT department on a budget

10/22/2008
Boston-based Veritude offers five steps to staffing an IT project on a budget.

E-discovery requests expected to rise sharply with financial crisis

10/20/2008
And then the investigators came marching in... In the midst of the current financial turmoil, firms can expect a rise in the number of e-discovery requests they have to respond to, experts predict.

UBS Joins DTCC Managed Accounts Service

10/17/2008
The centralized platform is designed to automate and standardize communications among sponsors, investment managers and service providers.

Riskdata starts daily publication of VaR indicators

10/16/2008
With market volatility at an all time high, Riskdata is now offering daily publication of VaR indicators, as well as Shock VaR, to indicate possible over or under-estimate of risk during the market crises.

Who is Wall Street's Biggest Loser -- or Gainer?

10/16/2008
ExecDex, a web-based application, tracks executives' fluctuating reputation and popularity based on each breaking news story, blog post or event. It also monitors company and product news, as well as stock price, and executive compensation...

Bank mergers present painful integration challenges (VIDEO)

10/2/2008
The current Wall Street financial crisis has seen JPMorgan Chase buy Washington Mutual (as well as Bear Stearns), and Bank of America acquire Merrill Lynch. But integrating firms' systems after a merger is a major challenge.